Thanks for the input - comments inline. Net Llama! wrote:
> I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue. They just like to make > standards, rather than follow them. Hmm, not good if they break too many of them. > 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. When you say break away from the redhat-isms what does that entail? This worries me in that I can end up with a "non-standard" system and have trouble later. Although I have experience with many OSs - including various unixes - that's been a long time ago and I'm trying to get back into it (I'm VMS, Windows world now) and although I will eventually get into the nittty-gritty details I need a system I can get up and running and then play with later. I'll be building a workstation and a server shortly so this is a good time to see if I need to stay with Caldera. One concern expressed about Caldera was that they left things out - what about RH - is everything there. And what is everything? So far I haven't missed much on Caldera but then I haven't done much except build some apps. I know Caldera has been slow on updates but that hasn't been a problem to me. > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> What do you recommend then for a distro? I see - and this is based only >> on my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists: >> >> RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain >> standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue. They made it >> popular but lost it >> >> SUSE - ? >> >> Mandrake - ? >> >> Debian - ? >> >> Who else is there - Maybe use gentoo to set it up and then make your own >> changes and updates (I do that with Caldera anyway in that I upgrade the >> kernels and some of the apps). >> >> What distros are worth installing in that they include what they are >> supposed to and follow the standards? >> >> I would like to know as I'm building a Linux workstation and also a file >> server. I'd planned to use Caldera Server 3.1.1 and WS 3.1.1. > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
