On 07/08/2013 07:19 AM, Gary wrote:
if the RDD developer folk in general were to centralize on a platform like RHE or Suse Linux Enterprise Server - SLES with a longer life span would resolve to a more stable platform with greater support. I believe it is
Actually they have. RD used to be built on openSUSE but the release cycle (18 months IIRC) was a pain for the developers to try to keep up with. They settled on CentOS, which is a actually Red Hat Enterprise Server in disguise. It has long term support and is quite stable. But not particularly bleeding edge. The other RD downloads available are put out by RD community folks that for what ever reason like those distributions better than CentOS. They're not "offically" supported, but made available in the spirit of open source sharing.
I use SLES at work. The annual support for it is expensive. I forget how much it is, but all you get is updates - no real support. If you want human hand-holding it's very spendy. If you don't buy the premium support, it's a cool grand per incident, outsourced to a 3rd party. No idea how RHEL compares but I think it's just as bad. That may be fine for larger stations, but for little shops it's a hardship.
As an aside, last year I bought a new HP computer for my own use. I never could get Linux properly installed on it. The bios was a horrible little crippled thing, and the UEFI stuff made for untold complications. Some distributions wouldn't get past a couple steps into the install process. Others installed but then the display would just lock up. I took the box back to OfficeMax and swapped it out for a Gateway which worked just fine. Probably the HP was just too new. Maybe something like Wheezy would install now, I don't know. But I swore off HP boxes. YMMV...
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