Laurie Brown wrote:
That's one reason I'm still with SuSE after all this time. They haven't messed me about at all, and if beta software is in the distro, they ensure one is aware of it. IMO, for a newbie, SuSE can't be beaten. Every time I've been near RH, OTOH...
this isn't aimed at one person, or one distro, just a general blow of steam.. ignore if wanted....
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I recommend Suse to all my friends who are home users, but in commercial environments I use redhat. This is for various reasons; I've been using it long enough to know what goes where, I can setup/automate large scale systems very easily, it runs with very little management when I have set it up, and finally there are some non-technical issues like the managers and bean counters not having heard of suse or debian. There is more of a chance that they have heard of redhat...
Maybe I'm just a weirdo, but for the last few years I have never had any problems with Rh.. pre 6.2 was a different story though, but that's 3 years old now ;) I was in a heated discussion with friend recently saying how unstable M$ stuff is and he said that win2k is very stable, and that I was using the same reasoning and logic from win95 to judge win2k.. I have to admit that he was right... Now I'm not saying that we should all switch to winblows, but I am saying that just because things didn't work in teh past, the past shouldn't be used to judge the present... the first version of Suse I used was a compete nightmare (version 5.1), and I hated it with a passion. But now I am seriously considering giving 7.2 a try... I want encrypted file system out of the box, and it provides the features I want, so I'll make the switch...
At the end of the day, the best technical solution is not necessarly the best solution, M$ is a shining exmaple of how to do things that are technically wrong, but how to provide a good solution to people's problems </me hides under rock for the second time today>
I believe that what we alternative OS types should be doing is promoting the use of alternative systems. I want people to realise that they do have a choice in linux/BSD/other, and that the community can support them when they need help. I don't want people thinking that the community is arguing amoungst itself as to which OS/distro is technically superiour. Use what is a good solution for the job, and if that is slackware, mandrake, *bsd, suse, debian then so be it.. Don;t forget that somebody has to look after these machines, if a newbie is given a slackware CD then I would consider that an incorrect move, even if it is better than the rest...
Oh well, back to the land of reality ;)
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Sz