Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On 26 Feb 2003 18:10:30 GMT, Harvey Kelly writes: But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to switch? Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it should be enough? Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different flavours of course, but not that

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:43:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian. One of my friends gives

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:15, Paul Johnson wrote: this is particularly bad (I'm not used to SuSE), though this has nothing to do with being German. But seriously, if you had the choice between apt-getty goodness and anything else, which would you pick? Heck, I wish I could use apt-get

manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Waldner
One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This is, obvious to any Debian user, not what one wants to support. However, in order to be able to convince him that changing to Debian would be a Good(tm) idea, I need a management-compatible comparison, preferrably from a third party. If it

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Harvey Kelly
But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to switch? Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it should be enough? Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different flavours of course, but not that far apart. Now if he was running Mandrake, then

RE: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-26 Thread adcarlson
Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian. On 26-Feb-2003 Robert Waldner wrote: One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This