(apologies to jmh for sending this twice, forgot to send it to the list)
I'd like to know how others are dealing with this. Is anybody using Ubuntu clients with SL servers for instance? Any other words of wisdom on this topic?
Personally, I don't think its scientific applications in general that are lacking, but Firefox 2.0, for example. I don't mind installing the odd application in /usr/local/bin, but I don't want to have to install most of the things I use that way. I've just started up a lab that is using Linux workstations and servers, and I felt it was a lot easier to just install Fedora on the workstations. Lots of flexibility (and lots of rope to hang yourself with.) But, for our servers, I need them to be compatible with Redhat and very stable. In general, there aren't users using them directly. SL seems like the way to go. I've used Ubuntu, and I felt like it got a bit messy. There are so many things available, but a lot of them didn't work very well.
