Yes, we do. Contact us offline for the information, or see http://www.sinenomine.net/debian.
-- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > James Melin > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Most 'mature' distribution? > > > Is anyone offering 24/7 support for Debian such as the > support offered by > SuSE/RH? That's often the only way I can sell a software platform to > management is decent software support. > > > > |---------+--------------------------------> > | | John Summerfield | > | | <summer@computerdatas| > | | afe.com.au> | > | | Sent by: Linux on 390| > | | Port | > | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | | EDU> | > | | | > | | | > | | 01/04/2003 04:49 PM | > | | Please respond to | > | | Linux on 390 Port | > | | | > |---------+--------------------------------> > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -----------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | cc: > | > | Subject: Re: Most 'mature' distribution? > | > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -----------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marco Shaw wrote: > > > > Sure wish IBM would support Debian. It is SO VERY much > nicer to use. > > > > Is that a general statement about Debian, or you find > Debian/390 to be > > very good compared to other Linux/390 distributions? > > My experience is all IA32. > > I've been using Red Hat Linux since 3.0.3. Recent releases are easy to > install and adapt easily to changed configurations such as a change of > NIC, mouse, new drives and such. Also, much configuration is > assisted by > GUIs. > > With the advent of RH 8.0, RH and I have some differences and > I've been > looking at Debian. > > Debian's installer "needs work," I've not discovered much in > the way of > tools to help users configure stuff. > > One RHL one installs stuff and then configures it, but it's > up to you to > figure what needs to be configured. Mostly, stuff is in a > working state. > > on Debian, much configuration is interactive; you leave off > installing a > bunch of software to configure less, and that's a pain, it makes > automatic installations akin to Red Hat's kickstart process difficult. > > To be sure, cloning is easy enough. > > However, one you have the system setup and running, I think > Debian wins. > *I* want to get my updates from a local mirror, and Red Hat's > tools for > package-maintenance don't so easily support that. For that reason I've > not used Red Hat's up2date facility. > > On Debian, apt-get automatically gets the latest versions of packages. > Installing Apache? It gets the updated version for your > release plus all > the requirements. > > I've not tried updating from one release to another, but as I > understand > it, it's supposed to work on the running system, without rebooting > (except to activate your new kernel). > > I think I would reboot, once the upgrade's done, to ensure > everything is > restart and does still work. > > I also like the fact it makes no effort to tie me to a vendor. > > > > > -- > > > Cheers > John. > > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb >
