Re: Linux on Laptop: Success!

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Hmmmm.  It would be intersting to see a comparison of what distribution
>>let you enable swap in "phase one" verses those that don't.  Does anyone 
>>know how SuSe manages this?  (As I'm increasingly tempted to jump off the
>> RedHat ship).
>I hope I don't step on any Red Hat toes, but I increasingly get the
>impression that that Red Hat is setting their own way of doing things. For
>instance, RHCE versus LPI certification. LPI, from what I can tell, is less
>distribution specific and more straightforward Linux. RHCE is very Red Hat
>centered. And that's OK. I just get the impression that the "Red Hat way"
>of doing things is slowly coming about. But I guess that's true of any
>distro. And that's one of the beautiful things about Linux...there's always
>a choice! Try that approach with NetWare or NT...NOT!

I don't really understand the diffrence between something like LPI and my "Unix
Administration Certificate".  99.44% percent of the time it's hard to tell my
AIX box from my Linux box without typing "uname -a".  I think Linux should
emphasise that it IS very much like Unix. 

My gripe with Redhat is they seem to be slipping behind.  I learned last week
that SuSe support Async I/O, USB, and Volume Management out of the box, so my
applying something like seven patches to the kernel source (Linus' version, I
pitch RH's source RPMS) would be unneccessary if I had used a distribution
authored by people raised on "Marshall Plan" milk instead of grits and crawfish.
It's hard at this point to recommend RedHat for much,  even every home user can
benefit from LVM, as they can forget forever about partitions and such
non-sense.


>>> Tony Gettig, CNE
>>> The Gettig Group, Inc.
>>Is there more than one Gettig?
>Actually, I may be hiring my brother this summer if things work out. Then
>there really will be more than one Gettig in the Group. :) Of course,
>there's always the wifal unit and five kids...

Which is the PPID of the child processes?  Tony or Wifal.

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