Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I have at one time or another used all of the major Distro's, MDK, RH, Xandros, Deb, Slack etc etc. At present I have four machines running here: Ubuntu Warty Warthog, Mandrake 10.1, Xandros 2.5 and SuSE 9.2On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 04:44, Sam Hiser wrote:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though, comes out soundly on top as being the most full borne and professional desktop system of any (bar none), even Windows. It's sold only in units of 10 at $2,500 per. Now $250 seems like a lot to an individual student or hacker, but RHDT is a BUNDLED deal--with support, deployment, RH Network, etc-- so you can't compare it blindly across a distro pricing matrix. Trust me, it's by far the best value and most complete; although out of the reach of mere mortals ;-)
I use Suse and can't envision what Redhat could have that Suse does not
except more books. OTOH I can still buy boxed sets of Suse but not DR
who kicked the home user to the curb. I use the Pro edition not
enterprise. Looking foward to 9.3 and a new set of books.
And I have to agree that SuSE is the one that will remain my prime OS. I'm looking forward to getting NLD which will be 9.3 by any other name.
IMHO Novell will become MS's biggest threat in the desktop market.
Its my hope that when IBM buys Novell, a 3 year old rumor, it willHeh ain't that the truth, however IBM and Novell are so buddy buddy these days that it's hard to tell the difference. So the question is : When "IBM Workplace " turns from vapour to reality will it turn up in SuSE 10 or whatever comes next? And then when that happens will it be suddenly discovered how much code that Novell developers have been feeding into Workplace rather than into OOo.
immediately rewrite the books and start publishing better manuals.
Just my conspiracy theory for this week! ;)
Heh, they should just employ OOoAuthors. I've been reading the recently published stuff, I doubt Novell could do better anywhere.I know we nixer's are all supposed to be hackers but I still prefer people speak to geek when I want to solve a problem in a hurry. RH is also able to attract good third party writers and Suse could use some.
Cheers Yo
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