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

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <algaba@gmx.net>]

Hi,

	Anyway, I personally don't care about Suse or Red Hat. It's not only
Mandrake, Debian, the thousands of installations of Linex or
Guadalinex...
There're hundreds of other distros :Esware, Aurox,... 

	Even bribing CEOs you'll never stop the Linux movement. What's
necessary is institutional and enterprise support. And we already have
that with IBM, Hp and many national, regional and local governments.

	Micshit should spend its money better instead of bribing people.


---
mga

Linux, the other OS, the one that is not only stable when the computer
is turned off. 



El mié, 05 de 11 de 2003 a las 16:05, Daniel Guermeur escribió:
> 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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