I should add, that I use XFS on every new box I build. Its a joy to not have to worry about the filesystem anymore. I've got 1 box with ext3, and its a constant headache.
Andrew Mathews wrote: > "Net Llama!" wrote: > >>I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue. They just like to make >>standards, rather than follow them. >> >>I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick. Way too many religious zealots. >> >>Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a wee >>bit too unstable for my taste. I mean, devfs as the standard??? What >>were they thinking? >> >>SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although i've >>never used it. >> >>So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on. >>RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days. I think >>they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their market >>share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the needs to >>the l33t script kiddies. I've got 6 desktop boxes (counting the 2 >>laptops), and Redhat occupies 4 of them. Overall i tend to break away >>from the redhat-isms and install things the way i like them. >> > > <snip> > > I'd have to agree with you. I originally started with RH around 5.2 and > immediately took a dislike, switching to Caldera. I've tried SuSE, > Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and even <cough> Corel<cough> which I > immediately confused with an AOL disc, immediately making an excellent > drink holder. I run Caldera on this laptop, and another, as well as one > gateway/firewall and another mail server. However I've converted several > boxen to the SGI/RH 7.2 distro which I've had absolutely zero problems > with. Not one single problem! So in time, all mine will eventually be > all XFS/SGI/RH based. Hell, even SGI's vanilla 2.4.18 kernel runs like a > dream. I haven't been this impressed with a distro since eDesktop 2.4! > As a matter of fact, I'm having an intellectual *debate* (disagreement) > over using it vs. SuSE 8.0 for a new hot rod web server I'm building for > the State. I respect his opinion highly, but I really don't have a good > feel personally for SuSE just yet. I may test it on a spare laptop hard > drive over the weekend and see how different, or the same it really is. > It has to have XFS or I won't load it though. Any comments or opinions > about these are appreciated. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:55pm up 21 days, 2:49, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.17, 0.16 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
