25 Jun
2004
25 Jun
'04
2:29 p.m.
Hi all,
This was a really nice debate, so nice that I think it would be worth keeping some key
elements of it. So I aks you all who would be volunteer to write a little article about
his favorite distro, explaining why one should specfically use that one, which we could
then published on the lilux website. What do you think about it ?
Well we could even enlarge the scope of this to specific programs, I'm for isntance
thinking about the KDE / GNOME issue !
Coming back to the debate I'm a fully debian converted, apt really is great, however
I hate dselect ;)
I also iused (tested) other distros :
gentoo : nice but the compilation is a real pain in the ass if you like to have an app up
an runing fast !
redhat, mandrake, & suse : well these arre the commercial ones, and the thing I
don't like tis that one has to wait the whole 6 moths before getting a full upgrade,
in debian and others y oucan have a step-by-step upgrade
caldera & corel : caldera was in fact my first linux distro and corel the second, but
well not much to say, they are past anyway ;)
On the desktop side I'm a GNOME-guy, however tending more and more to fluxbox due to
the strangenesses in gnome 2.6 .
cheers,
pst
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:57:29AM +0200, Patrick Kaell wrote:
Michael Scherer wrote:
--
Pascal Steichen
pascal.steichen(a)linux.lu
Lilux ASBL
www.lilux.lu
" Linux is like a woman, hard to understand
But very nice once you get under the hood. "
and there is commercial support, :
http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting.html
I like the *BSDs and I also think that they are technically superior to
Linux. But the difference (unlike compared to Windows) between Linux and
*BSD just is too small to justify giving up commercial support.
By commercial support I can give you an example:
At work we use HP DL380 servers from HP. HP provides Linux drivers and
agents for everything (for RedHat's Enterprise distributions). You can
control the temperature of different zones, rotating speed of the fans,
RAID status. There is a curses based tool to configure the RAID. If
there is a problem, it gets logged into syslogd and the agent sends SNMP
traps.
Without the agents installed, I would *not* get noticed when a drive
fails. I would not see a single line in syslogd. OK, there is a red
light on the drive itself which goes on, but the servers aren't all
located on our site!
The industry just has settled on Linux! They may support a second
systems besides Windows (and it is justified because Linux is quite
different to Windows and Linux does many things Windows cannot do), but
they will not support a third system where the benefits are quite marginal.
Many organisations who replace commercial Unix by Linux need Oracle and
DB2 support (emulation just doesn't cut it). They don't just do FTP, WWW
and Mail especially on the large servers.
Don't forget, I have *BSD installed on many machines at home and as a
firewall I run NetBSD on a Sun SparcClassic. But I would not recommend
it at work, where people just have accepted Linux.
Patrick Kaell
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