David,
Thanks for your insights.
Nice to know about the high degree of interoperability among the various
distributions.
In addition to the official RH6.1 deluxe, for which I paid full price; I have
the full retail SuSE 6.3 (as a consolation prize in the Alpha server drawing)
and I recently purchased
TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 (for $20 w. a $20 rebate)
I still have about 3 months left on RH priority FTP support, so maybe I'll
dive into it again when I build up the courage.
At least one of the others should be decent. And, I just got the updated
evaluation CDs from TurboLinux (including Server and Cluster Server).
Rodney
David Mandel wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> >
> > Who cares which distro it is as long as it's GNU and Linux underneath.
> >
> I second that opinion.
>
> Generally, I like:
>
> SuSE for my own use. It is big and fat with lots and lots of tools.
> It also has nice usable configuration tools.
>
> Debian for certain clients. It is big, but philosophically pure.
> Thus, I perfer it for LinuxFund.org, PLUG,
> ltplus.org, and other OpenSource organizations.
>
> RedHat for most clients. It has sort of become the accepted professional
> standard for Linux in the USA.
> (SuSE plays this role in Europe and TurboLinux plays
> this role in East Asia.)
>
> Corel or Caldera for certain end-users
> Corel is cool. It is polished and easy to use.
> However, it is a desktop distribution without the
> security needed for servers. It also lacks the
> tools hackers want (compilers, emacs, etc.)
>
> Finally, I commonly mix and match things between distributions.
> I often create my configuration files with SuSE
> (or sometimes Corel) and copy them to my RedHat
> systems. Sometimes I will go the other way.
> I also move software from one distribution to
> another. It all works together - at least most
> of the time.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Mandel
> Chief Activist
> Portland Linux/Unix Group
> 1440 NE 59th
> Portland, Oregon 97213
>
> P.S. Linux works fine on 486 computers. I used a couple Linux
> 486/33 computers for heavy production work for years.
> One had 16 mb RAM and the other had 96 mb.
> As I recall, I ran SLS (Soft Landing Software), Slackware,
> and SuSE on these machines. I may have used RedHat as well.
> Along these lines, I have ran Linux including X-Windows on
> machines as small as 386/16s with 6 mb of RAM. X-Windows
> is very slow on a 386/16 with 6 mb of RAM, but it works
> and works well. My client found the demonstration very
> impressive.
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