On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:33:18 +0800 (WST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Perhaps too you should ask why Red Hat does not support JFS as >your root filesystem. There may be some concerns you should know >about.
That would not be my immediate interpretation of RHs lack of support for it. But that is really a different issue. >I think "Which distro?" is a sound question. I personally would >not sugggest mixing distros either on a single Linux machine or within >an organisation unless there are good reasons to do so. It is a sound question, but only the first time you pick. I am not suggesting mixing distros - simply pick one that will satisfy your requirements. Then, once you've gotten sufficient Linux-experience you will realise that the distro really does not matter much. >As soon as you and non-xxx packages to your xxx system you walk away >from the QA work your vendor did. That said, I see less concern with But they most probably QA'ed their own add-ons. Everything else comes from the usual sources, and was QA'ed there. I do not believe I am doing anything "bad" to my system or somehow ruining the QA work done by the distro vendor by downloading the latest Apache source tarball and building & installing it. >installing packages designed for your system: if you need the latest >Samba for your Red Hat Linux, then a package built for it from Samba.org >is better than no package, whereas a package from SuSE might be a >doubtful proposition. Correct. But I simply wouldn't bother - download the source tarball, not the RPM. >Similarly, if SuSE is best for most of your needs, think long and >hard about also running Red Hat Linux because doing so doubles your >support costs in many areas - twice as many patches, twice as many >test machines and so on. Totally agree. regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
