On January 25, 2004 10:09, Jason Becker wrote: > 1. What distro are you currently running?
home: SUSE, Mandrake work: SUSE, Gentoo > 2. What distro were you running before that? Red Hat, Mandrake > 3. Why did you switch? I was personally dissatisfied with Red Hat as a workstation OS. Their recent moves also made it a no-go when it came to recommending it for most business situations (Fedora is too new, and for some too "community" and not enough "business"; RHEL is too expensive). I was going to go towards either Mandrake and/or Debian more, but SUSE has some important corporate support (mostly on the ISV side of things) and is rather well put together. There were things I did not like about SUSE prior to version 8; but I had said that if they removed their horrible /etc/rc.conf abomination of a file and moved to something more "normal" and LSB-ish I'd give it a serious try. With SUSE 8 they did just that so I followed through on my promise. The speed is good, YAST is nice (if too slow), and it works dependably. Except when it comes to LDAP. I have no idea what the heck is wrong with SUSE's LDAP packages, but I can't get it to work reliably without major animal sacrifices made to the altar of Ba'al. At work, I walked into a Gentoo set up. We have some SUSE there now, but for the LDAP stuff it's Gentoo since it actually works and with virtually no effort. Except SAMBA 2.2.8 as a PDC with LDAP; what a gong show that was (LDAP as a compile time only option?!); SAMBA 3 should hopefully be the answer, however. But if Gentoo weren't around in that environment, I probably would've popped Red Hat on there to get LDAP moving. I haven't tried SUSE9 as an LDAP server yet, though, so maybe it's all straightened out and it was just SUSE8 that sucked in that regard. Who knows. > 4. What DE/Window Manager do you use? i'll bet you can guess without me even saying a word ;-) On servers, I'm still a console kind of guy. Blackbox at best, though my firewall is running IceWM for various reasons (Peyton used to play on it, and I wanted to see MDK's GUI tools in action on a small hardware system) -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
