On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:53:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > My own forray through the usual suspects: Debian, Fedora Core > / Red Hat, Gentoo, Mandrake, SuSE, Ubuntu, turns up a few > interesting observations: [skip] Thanks for review, I've occasionally forwarded it to novell.ru's CEO I know -- maybe they realize that hiding docs is even worse than hiding updates in the sense that updates do cost money to maintain *and* to reproduce but docs can't be reproduced as such without having them -- and it's hurting those who should promote them (if I were SuSE manager :). OTOH I could propose you to have a look at ALT Linux for that matter -- we're apt-rpm, company+community, no wipe+rebuild, but should warn that effectively the system GUI configuration tools end with installer -- which should be no major problem at the school (except the printers maybe... and localhost:631 is there). It has some obvious drawbacks -- the major being "in the midst of reorganization process" when company must decide which path to choose, and several persons including me are pressing in the direction of "multi companies mutually supportive with community" (I happen to be co-initiator of one of a few such companies which is located in Kiev, Ukraine). It's yet to be seen; and wrong decision (or the lack thereof) may lead to the dissipation way but still we hope for the better and existing products like Compact 2.3 are just out there. ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/ISO/Compact-2.3-en.iso ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Compact/2.3/ALTLinux/RPMS.contrib Docs are and the majority of community communicates in Russian. Still there's English-speaking ML: https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/community-en Hope I've warned you enough to be honest but not enough to completely scare off. :) -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/
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