Still, RH has one overwhelming advantage: Being first and American, in America. That's worth a lot in cash terms any day, and then there were the first to push a lot of things.
Whatever happened to Redhat Database btw?! Strong base (PostgreSQL) but not much in the news. Any users?
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 12:35 Africa/Kampala, Mark Tinka wrote:
Did someone just say something about a 'Dead Rat', sorry, Red Hat :-)?<image.tiff>
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Mark Tinka - CCNP
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiggundu Mukasa
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:27 AM
To: LUG
Subject: Re: lug_: RedHat Linux
Fred,
RedHat is a good distribution and many distributions use its rpm format (including SuSE).
Being American they quickly noticed the importance of marketing and are now number one because of it (e.g. they were first with the "enterprise server" notion).��
As for software quality I think SuSE has the edge (e.g. Oracle 9 certified first on SuSE).� But as with all linux some tweaking is always required.� The thing that SuSE really has going for it is that as the largest Multinational/Multilingual distribution, they have tended to be more "worldy" in their outlook and it reflects in their product.
They each have their strong points and their weak points and even the critics have no finality on this one.� Pick your poison an enjoy.� For me I have watched SuSE grow from below Mandrake and Slakware in Market share to Number 2 based on quality so I am happy (except for the fact that they have never done a SuSE ppc after 7.1).
Kiggs
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:28, Fred Bbaale wrote:
People , is it only me who feels uncomfortable with RedHat being adopted
by many as the De Facto Linux Distribution?
Fred.
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