Guillaume Morin wrote: [ on the discussion about RH vs. SuSE ] ... stuff snipped...
Come on :) , it is trivial to get one package with the utils for something as common...
I really have no preference for any for Redhat or SuSE, but you're being a bit unfair.
Guillaume.
Actually, not unfair at all. Though as a Debian person you are quite used to doing many things on your own outside of support, corporate customers are not likely to install packages outside of the vendor's support. Just adding reiserfs to RH is not as simple as pulling (potentially non vendor supported) packages off the web. Granted, RH may provide packages for that particular case, but their track record with reiserfs hasn't been great even when packages were available. RH really likes ext3.
With that said, RH has money coming out of its ears in comparison to SuSE. So money is NOT standing in the way of RH turning up the heat in a future distribution (the money difference is actually quite grotesque). Now with that said, I do highly admire the level of determination and committment by SuSE and so I like SuSE better. But as an ISV, we have to support both.
I prefer the player who's motiviation is strong regardless of the number $$$'s presented to him/her.... but many (if not most) people base decisions on a company's financial data.
SuSE certainly has enough enterprise level customers... I'm going to throw my hat in with them (and RH because I have to).
