Re: Linux on Laptop: Success!

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>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 
>Not to mention that SuSE has ReiserFS (JFS) support out of the 

Yep, forgot that one.  At least it know looks like ResiserFS will be included in
2.4 whenever that happens.

>>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.
>I haven't used SuSE much since 6.0 (they are currently 6.4), but the only
>fault I found with them back then is the software had a very non-english
>flavor (since SuSE is based in Germany).  Maybe it has improved now?
>Otherwise, SuSE is VERY GOOD STUFF (IMO).

Having never used SuSe much first hand (just keep hearing good things) do you
mean the documentation?  Or actuall UI's themselves had poor grammer?
>
>I would have to do a lot of evaluating before I switched.  I'm worried
>about what problems I would encounter converting servers.
>Does SuSE post error and security updates as quick as Redhat?
>Does SuSE's PHP have PostgreSQL & IMAP support compiled in?
>(Personally I'd rather recompile a kernel than try to recompile PHP
> with all the modules I need! :)

You have a point there.

>Just some of the questions I would have to answer first...
>One other advantage I've noticed about Redhat, is almost all of the
>stock redhat CD's are available for download (except for the commercial
>software).  Main, powertools, source, documentation, are all downloadable.
>OTOH, SuSE has a single CD "evaluation" version for download, and they
>expect you to buy the distribution to get all the other CD's.  At least
>I've never seen the other CD's for download anywhere.

Are RPM's in general portable between RPM based distributions?  I would have
assumed so.

>I guess we'll have to create our own distribution to get it perfect ...
>Anyone up for a BSware overhaul?   :{)

Yep, I'd love to if I had the time. I really think that a seperate distribution
for "clients" and another for "servers" is what the doctor calls for. 

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