[ale] RH - disappointing

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:06:23AM -0800, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> > With that said... I'd like to get some input from y'all on other
> > distributions since I haven't fooled around with anything except
> > RedHat.  If you have a favourite, I'd like to hear what it is,
> > why you prefer it over others, and any shortcomings you've encountered.

> Desktops: SuSE and nothing else....
> Mail servers:   Slackware
> Data Servers:   Slackware or SuSE depending HW horsepower and applications
> Firewall/VPNs:  Slackware!

> Slackware is bare metal. You've got to configure *everything*. Runs
> great on under provisioned hardware and absolutely screams on properly
> provisioned hardware. This is the perfect distribution imho for vertical
> server applications like mail, database and such.

When I installed Slackware 8.1 on my ThinkPad laptop, X was the only thing
I had to "configure" (that Red Hat might have figured out).  Everything
else went very smoothly and fast.  Ditto for SW8.1 on desktops.

> SuSE has lots of chrome for desktop users to feel good about. Keeps'em
> happy. Even so, it's stable and easy to maintain. I've upgraded SuSE
> installations using CD's, the internet and intranets. Never had a
> problem. Samba installation and configuration is a snap in SuSE. So
> is Postgres. I've configured IBM DB2 on serveral SuSE systems without
> any problems at all: I can't say this for RH, Mandrake or TurboLinux
> (The latter distro is leaper of all linux distro....).
> Hardware configuration is also easy in SuSE. For instance, out of the box,
> SuSE supports over 900 printers. I don't know of any other distro that can
> say this. 


> Best regards


> Marvin Dickens

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