"At this point the differences between the two distributions are fairly negligable."
Not true. The lastest RH has on the street is the 2.4.9 kernel in RH7.1 and RH7.2. SuSE has had 2.4.19 out for almost a year. There are major improvements in scaling between 2.4.9 and 2.4.19. So RedHat seems to be running at least a year behind SuSE, though RHEL3 will bring them to 2.4.21 as will SuSE SP3. While working on the Taroon Beta I get the impression that the RedHat engineers are out of touch, in some sense, with s/390 (IMHO). For example, though I could build a system under VM, it would not IPL under an LPAR (something they had not even tested). Taroon will support reiser mount only and does not include the tools for Reiser (mkfs, fsck, etc). I think this is also true of JFS. SuSE prefers Reiser in its builds, but includes all the tools for ext3 (RedHat's choice) and JFS if you so choose. Anybody that has had SuSE in house then wants to go to RedHat may have a conversion and administrative problem with already reiser inhouse. SuSE seems to be much more sensitive to s/390 problems and issues while staying in the overall context of Linux. RedHat seems to be much less flexible, IMHO. Through into the mix that SuSE's 2.4.19 at SLES8 is available for both s/390 and risc processors and have for some time, and I would have to lean to SuSE as being ahead of RedHat on large platforms. They both seem comparable on intel. ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
