What's after OpenLinux?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:49:52PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:

>Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux
>boxes pretty soon. Principles you know...

>Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to
>OpenLinux in as far as directory locations and system V startup scripts?

We've moved to SuSE 8.1, and I've been quite happy with it overall.
They've moved away from the mongo rc.config file (and we're building all of
our stuff using openpkg so don't run afoul of any of their packages).

SuSE has a very nice method of dealing with the SYSV startup where
dependencies can be specified in the master startup in /etc/init.d, then
the ``inssrv'' program will figure out what has to start in order to make
sure things are done in the proper order.

I haven't had any problems with yast2, and it has an ncurses mode that
works quite well from non GUI sessions.

Bill
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