At 04:44 2001-07-16 -0400, you wrote:
>,----[ On Mon, Jul 16, at 11:03AM, Juha J?ykk? wrote: ]--------------
>| Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of
>| Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors
>| to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I
>| need strong evidence in favour of Debian if I am to succeed in
>| enforcing it. I do not know SuSE myself, so I cannot fight them (they
>| do not know Debian, but they are the ones who decide - they do not
>| need to) alone. I only care for security/administrability issues now.
>`----[ End Quote ]---------------------------
>
>Also, in a corporate enviroment, never understtimate the CYOA factor.
>With Debian, you will be where the buck stop at. There wont be a
>corporate contract with RH to cover you when shit happens. SuSe is a
>nightmare of non conformity. Debian is text book SysV directory
>structure, a great help if you use other Unix systems. Do find out why
>your bosses wantr to change from RH, you didnt mention that, depending
>on their reasons, you might want to consider other options. If you want
>a good suggestion, do present all sides here. but these are the ones
>that come to mind between Debian vs. SuSe. I would sayd ignore the 'gnu
>free' vs. 'truly free' argument, this is a corporate
>enviroment...anyway, hope that helps, odds are it wont. But its my
>2cents anyway. --gabe
There may be issues with application support - for instance, Debian was
our first preference when we selected our distro, but IBM don't support
DB2 on Debian, so we had to go for SuSE instead.
Geoff.
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