Thanks for the comments. I feel better now about it now. Net Llama! wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> Thanks for the input - comments inline >> Net Llama! wrote: >>>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 > > Just that i don't blindly use all the RPMs that Redhat provides. > >> 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. > > That is a plus with RH, in that just about everything is avaiable. You > name it, and odds are there's a Redhat compatible RPM out there for it. > Lately (like in the past 4 months or so), i don't install RPMs at all, i > always go with SRPMs, or source tarballs, and install them with > checkinstall generated RPMs. > > -- 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.
