On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:33, saugata ghosh wrote:
> 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
one of few things that Suse is ahead of is "EAL3+", where Redhat has
applied for "EAL2+"
and there are not many sites who clearly states EAL3+/EAL2+
certifications.
can anyone suggest any site or coments..
thank u all for your advices and mails..
somu
> -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
> >
> >
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