RE: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support

["Daniel Guermeur" <daniel@metadot.com>]

Suse is also our preference and for two reasons: Yast is a good system to
manage software installs and updates (supports network updates too) and Suse
OS stability: when they release a new version it works, as opposed to other
leading distrib where main new version e.g. 8.0 or 9.0 just brings you lots
of troubles...


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> [mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net]On Behalf Of Burkhard
> Woelfel
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:56 AM
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support
>
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> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 15:11, Bob Sewell wrote:
> >  From a standpoint of a school... does anyone have recommendations for
> > another distro to consider?  I'm considering SUSE because the pro
> > version comes with 8 CDs, containing all of the software to have ever
> > been tested with it.  Also YAST seems to be an ideal way to manage
> > programs within.  Hey, has anyone else noticed the Novell component that
> > is also within the YAST menu?  Hmmm....  inclusion is everything.
> >
> > Distro recommendations welcomed.  Thanks.  :-)
>
> In my opinion SuSE is very easy to maintain. Hardware detection
> is very good,
> the 9.0 Pro version is 5 CDs and seems to be slightly better than the
> previous version. No reason for a major version number, but improved
> nonetheless.
>
> YaST is a very good tool to have, it will manage just about
> everything. Even
> Linux newbies won't have lots of problems doing admin jobs, that's a good
> feature for the school context.
>
> I don't know about setting up dozens of machines with SuSE,
> because almost
> everything _has_ to be done with YaST. Manual config editing can
> be painful,
> because SuSE has it's own way to do things sometimes. I wouldn't want to
> script a mass installation process with that distro... :-)
>
> But there has to be a tool available for stuff like that, for
> YaST is actually
> scriptable via --option-flags. YaST can be used remotely too,
> just as any X
> app.
>
> Check it out. SuSE is proving Szulik to be completely wrong.
>
> - - Burkhard
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