[ale] Linux Desktop Costs

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:22, Dow Hurst wrote:

> money with the next version of their product.  If you can get the
> hardware recognized under Gentoo then your on an easier path to stay up
> to date with the current software packages that are in the ports
> collection.  SuSE, Mandrake, and RedHat are really good at hardware
> detection for the current distros but the latest cutting edge hardware
> probably won't work right.  This ACPI stuff being sold in new
> motherboards is a real pain.  Since your dealing with older stuff the
> hwinfo tool or hardware browser tool would be quite useful under the
> main distros.  There really isn't per seat licensing for Linux except in
> terms of commercial support.  The distro companies are developing

I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record with the Slackware bit, 
but I see another opportunity to enlighten someone and dispel another 
Slackware myth. You can keep Slackware up to date just as easy as any other 
distro. By using swaret (http://swaret.xbone.be/), you can pick your 
poison. Stay current with security updates (so rare that it's almost 
pointless) or you can go so far as to maintain a complete build of /current 
(ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current) which really 
doesn't lag far behind Gentoo and Mandrake and in my experience is stable 
enough for production use in all but the most critical environments. I ran 
/current on laptop, desktop, and server hardware from the release of 8.0 
until 9.0 was released without any problems whatsoever. Swaret is similar 
to apt-get in function, and it is a shell script so it is easily 
customizable. 


-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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