We used Mandrake at our offices until the poor QC just got out of hand. We switched to Suse 9.2 pro on the desktop and Debian on the sever. Life is now good. =) ALL distros have their quirks but quality control is important. So is polish on the desktop...Suse has it in spades.

Cheers

Jason

Shane Hollis wrote:
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.







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