Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Thanks for the input - comments inline > Net Llama! wrote: >>So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on. >>RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days. I think >>they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their market >>share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the needs to >>the l33t script kiddies. I've got 6 desktop boxes (counting the 2 >>laptops), and Redhat occupies 4 of them. Overall i tend to break away >>from the redhat-isms and install things the way i like them. > > > When you say break away from the redhat-isms what does that entail? This
Just that i don't blindly use all the RPMs that Redhat provides. > worries me in that I can end up with a "non-standard" system and have > trouble later. Although I have experience with many OSs - including > various unixes - that's been a long time ago and I'm trying to get back > into it (I'm VMS, Windows world now) and although I will eventually get > into the nittty-gritty details I need a system I can get up and running and > then play with later. I'll be building a workstation and a server shortly > so this is a good time to see if I need to stay with Caldera. > > One concern expressed about Caldera was that they left things out - what > about RH - is everything there. And what is everything? So far I haven't > missed much on Caldera but then I haven't done much except build some apps. > I know Caldera has been slow on updates but that hasn't been a problem to > me. That is a plus with RH, in that just about everything is avaiable. You name it, and odds are there's a Redhat compatible RPM out there for it. Lately (like in the past 4 months or so), i don't install RPMs at all, i always go with SRPMs, or source tarballs, and install them with checkinstall generated RPMs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 8:45pm up 21 days, 3:39, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.05 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
