On the server side i always go RHEL/CENTOS i run kubuntu on my laptop
FEDORA core on my office machine and MDK on my home machine. i do
think deb is cool as well but customer requirements most time require
that we run redhat on the server side.

On 9/9/06, Victor van Reijswoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also interesting to know what you and others use.

Personally I spit my time between Kubuntu and SuSE (next to my OSX)


On 9 Sep 2006, at 15:32, andrew colin wrote:

> An one more thing, need i remind you that your favourite YasT was a
> closed source application until recently.
>
> On 9/9/06, andrew colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 9/9/06, Victor van Reijswoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 9 Sep 2006, at 10:55, Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) wrote:
>> >
>> > > andrew colin wrote the following on 09/09/2006 09:25 AM:
>> > >> I agree i think you must have driven a german car in the days
>> of the
>> > >> box shape BMW or the VW beetle. I just cannot compare a
>> present day
>> > >> BMW,Audi or VW to a Citroen, renault or Peugeut.
>> >
>> > Peugeot you mean?
>>
>> That is really trival so i will not respond to that.
>>
>> >
>> > > plus, recent reliability surveys put all french marques at the
>> bottom
>> > > of the list.
>> >
>> > I was talking about comfort. And did the reliability test include
>> > driving in East Congo?
>> >
>> > In line of that, it may be interesting to see what is relevant in
>> > selecting a distro in an African context. Money is an issue as we
>>
>> Of course money is an issue but historical context is another factor
>> to consider any why, if you have used Linux for some time, it is
>> still
>> recent memory that SUSE for a long time had no FREE version available
>> for download apart from a partially disabled demo version. SUSE
>> development was for a long time a closed process for a few select
>> people that is a NO NO in the african context as OSS is to empower
>> africans not just by providing them with a stright jacket FREE as in
>> BEER OS with EXTRA's withheld for paying customers but a truly open
>> solution enabling then to extend, provide services and and generally
>> spur on various related inovations. SUSE/NOVELL is not that solution
>> NOVELL only jumped on the OSS bandwargon when they realised thier
>> IPX/NETWARE platform had become irelevant, they dont stand for open
>> source ideals at all for them it is just another oppotunity to make
>> money for the board. In comes opensuse,,, well we all know what that
>> is modeled on
>>
>> > have seen from the discussion, reliability in a situation of power
>> > outages, completeness when having limited internet access, ease of
>> > installation when local user communities are small etc.
>>
>> Ease of installation is not limited to SUSE so that is a NO NO as
>> well
>> the MDK install does a much better job for the novice user, UBUNTU
>> goes a step further by actually doing all the basics for u with out
>> asking you what you need to install but also giving the power user to
>> change the configuration to thier own tests.
>>
>> I am not
>> > aware that this type of evaluation has been done.
>> >
>> > Anyone aware of such a survey?
>>
>> Come to think of it Francis from MUK raised the issue of a localized
>> linux distro and i did not see anyone jumping up and down with joy
>> about finaly being able to make a positive contribution in areas
>> where
>> the other distro's have failed africa.
>>
>> For me i see that as a great oppotunity we can actually then take the
>> distro in the direction that would best suit african users.
>>
>> >
>> > Victor
>> >
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