I have been using redhat for the last couple of years on commercial sites. We have some new installs coming up, am looking at other options other than red hat.
At present have looked at Suse as it is used by some of our customers who are Novellites. Am also casting an eye over gentoo and mandrake. There are a number of systems in place such as YAST and portage which seem to make updating a whole lot easier than it used to be. Up until now I have only had to worry about the RH flavour. My clients need a) Security, and b)stability. They don't want cutting edge technology, as cutting often turns to bleeding edge, but a nice stable, solid conservative platform. RH gave that to them. At present I am leaning towards Gentoo but I know this is asking for opinions which do abound around here but Two questions: 1 - Of non RH platforms which the most generally secure /stable for SAMBA file serving and Mail type systems 2 - Which updater is generally better for maintenance of a mission critical system. Also has anyone tried United Linux? IBM has certified that for its Domino servers. <snip ... From IBM ...Domino Requires > * Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (AS/ES/WS) (uniprocessor Only ) * SuSE Linux Enterprise Server * (SLES) 8.0 for S/390 and Intel. * United Linux/Powered by United Linux 1.0 SP2 for S/390 * All "United Linux/Powered by United Linux 1.0 SP2 for Linux on Intel distributions". That includes: * SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8.0 * Turbo Linux Enterprise Server * Connectiva Linux Enterprise Server </end snip> Thanks in advance Shane -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 March 2005 9:31 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gentoo iso On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:58, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:15 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > ( btw, the combo of linux-2.6.11 and > > xorg-6.8.2 is a real joy ) > > are you using the gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11 or > gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r1 ebuild for the kernel? currently 2.6.11-rc5 but I'm going to install the release asap, i.e. after Tuesday, bit panic stricken atm, getting a slideshow put together. -- C.S.
