I think redhat still has an edge. Third party rpms are better supported in redhat and dependancy failures are less likely to occur. There may be some areas where suse is more stable. For desktop my personal preference is KDE. Its very important not to do anything experimental while dealing with corporate clients. Whats cool and attractive stuff to many of us plays no role in deciding which OS to choose in an actuall production environment. The windows legacy factor is extreemly important. For client side, make sure people are OK with these :
1) non existant of C:\ D:\ etc. 2) readonly permission in many directories. 3) concept of home directories. 4) Networking with samba/NFS 5) Cannot expect screensavers downloaded from the net to work. -- and many others -Saugata --- Rohit Vishal Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somu: > > For some weird reason you email is getting a date > tag of 1/1/99. If i > take this date tag to be correct then the question > you have posed is > archiac. > > Siddhartha has already replied with some pretty > powerful rejoinders to > your million Dollar Question. However i would > suggest a few more things: > > 1. Assess the needs of your client seriously. If > they require Enterprise > wise solutions think of going with the enterprise > version of any linux > Distro. > > 2. Have you assessed the "learning curve" for the > financial institution > (FI) and its clients? Linux is fast, pretty, sexy > but ... Would your FI > be willing to spend the time in learning linux, > maintaining it and > trying to solve the headache of getting various data > from various > suppliers on MS softwares? > > 3. As regards distros - i would always suggest that > evaluate each distro > and choose the one that your IT people think would > be the best to > maintain. Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, Gentoo... all are > equally good at > doing the task. But each follow different philosophy > - If you are > planning to offer KDE - easier integration is with > SuSE, Gnome works > best with RH & Mandrake... Your choice not ours. > > Dont forget that the FI will be sinking a lot of > money and resources in > building up this infrastructure. Which, i am sure > that they will like to > maintain for a few years. It is not like us - we > (individuals) have the > luxury of switching distros at will but your FI will > not have the same > pleasure... So think carefully, evaluate and then go > ahead. > > Personally i recommend RH or Mandrake followed by > SuSE > > RVK > > somu wrote: > > hello buddies!! > > > A million $question? Rehat or Suse (for server > side as well as client > > side)? > > Looking forward to your suggestion and thank you > all in advance > > > > somu > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
