On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Sunday 18 November 2001 16:27, you wrote: > > I am using for quite a while LM. Personally I like > > Mandrake a lot, but I have been open toward other > > distributions also. > > It looks to me that the most popular distributions > > (imho) are: > > 1. Mandrake > > 2. Suse
Dennis: I work at a large insurance carrier in the US and also do work for several ISP's. I can tell you the breakdown is as follows: Servers: Almost always Red Hat. The alliance with IBM and the support offerings have made Red Hat easier to get into the Enterprise. Red Hat has done a good job to provide administration tools, yet still allow you to tweak the OS as much as you need. Desktop: Here is where I am seeing Mandrake shine. People I work with who would never consider Linux before beg to have me install Mandrake for them. That can be good and bad. Good because I have always liked the Mandrake distro, bad because they sit and play with my good lap top all day. I was finally able to find Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack in the stores this weekend and I am happy to say I installed it in 30 minutes on my HP OmniBook 6000 lap top. To the crew at Mandrake you did an EXCELLENT JOB. As for Suse, it is a nice distro, and we have considered it here for running Oracle, but the biggest complaint I hear about them is the interface, especially during install. I have run all 3 of them. Currently I have Red Hat 7.2 on one machine, Mandrake 8.0 on another, Mandrake 8.1 on my lap top and I use Red Hat 7.1 on my server. Bottom line is, you might have to try each one and decided what is most comfortable for YOU. Me, I prefer Red Hat on my servers and Mandrake on my desktop. The best part is, you can download and try each one, then I HIGHLY encourage you when you pick the one you like to SUPPORT them and go and purchase the CD pack. -Scott
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