Re: [Nolug] redhat upgrade for web server

I'd love to give the SuSE Pro a try if at all possible.

Stickman wrote:

>As a user of both Redhat 8/9 and currently SuSE Pro 9.0, I only have one gripe
>with SuSE. It doesn't store programs (like Gnome and KDE, Open Office) in
>"RedHat" places. Just about everything goes in the /opt/ directory, which
>leads to interesting RPM installation. If you hit an SuSE apt-get repository,
>you can get fairly current versions of RPMs, but don't expect anybody to just
>have SuSE9 packages lying around. If you're looking for something off the
>beaten path, chances are you're gonna have to compile it from source.
>
>BTW, I love verything else about it, pretty much. Works as advertised, comes
>with veritable buttloads of software, has a great interface and realy nice
>hardware detection. (Fedora Core for some reason wouldn't detect my sound
>chip... go figure.)
>
>-Jeff Hendricks
>Spreading Free Software, one stubborn mind at a time.
>
>On Tuesday 29 June 2004 07:31 am, Bart wrote:
>
>
>>I had briefly thought about SuSE and actually have the 9.1 Personal
>>downloaded.
>>
>>Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:32 -0500, -ray wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>And i would not put a new box in production at RH9.0, since it's been
>>>>discontinued. If you're sticking with Redhat (and don't have issues with
>>>>a 2.6 kernel), i would go with Fedora Core 2.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Note that RH doesn't offer support of FC.
>>>
>>>If you want support, security fixes, etc in the RPM world, go with
>>>Progeny or SuSE.
>>>http://transition.progeny.com/
>>>
>>>Of course, Real Geeks would go to Debian, or it's cousin, Libranet
>>>2.8.1. It's got a GUI installer, and if the package versions are
>>>too old, you can migrate to straight Debian.
>>>http://www.libranet.com/features.html
>>>
>>>
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