On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Christopher Nambale/Bushnet wrote: > I think you grossly ignore the main theme of my post. The theme is that "I > have not had a good experience with SUSE of late" no where in my post was > that theme changed to my not having a good experience with LINUX. This is > evidenced by the fact that I got Morphix/morpheus which is based on debian > LINUX to install on the same computer without a hustle. Oh and by the way > the same thing happened before, where I had to spend two days trying to get > SUSE to see a raid controller, Red Hat 8.2 happened to install first time > without any hustles.
remember, these days, most kernels are heavily patched by their distributors/vendors. in my understanding, the morpheus kernel aint very different from a fresh vanilla kernel from kernel.org heavily patched kernels can sometimes be problematic depending on what one is trying to implement.. > My feeling these days is that certain things should not waste my > productivity time. I am more comfortable spending time on a computer to > actually do some work rather than to get it working. Honestly unless your > business is to install software on computers or to support people who are > having problems installing software on their computers I cannot see what > you achieve by spending 3 days struggling to get an OS working especially > when there are several alternatives that work. The freedom to choose is one > of the advantages LINUX gives us. while that is true, you may have got away with this particular scenario with Morphix/Debian, but next time, it just might happen that you may not get it to right away do what you want, and may be SuSE might be the way out.. will you zap your distro again? i dont think so :) > Your view on linux being a hackers OS are pretty old fashioned in my > opinion. Yes, when we started out it was cool to spend weeks trying to get > a basic X windows to start before you even thought about getting a window > manager to run correctly but that was 10 years ago. To catch my drift > please read the following post i still think in a heavy production environment (especially when an enterprise is trying to cut costs), it is a hackers OS. it will just not do what you want right away without a few hacks. If you are thinking of implementations beyond mail and web-servers, that is. weeks back, i posted here a few problems i was having with clustering and network raid1/network block devices. of course, i could have bought redhat-cluster-manager at 1000$ and my problems would have been solved right away :) just click-next-end, and you have a running cluster. :) that is pretty not the easy way with GNU/GPL software. cheers, ernest. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
