Hi Michael, > (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?
For servers I use SL308, SL45 i386 and x86_64 and soon to use SL5 i386 and x86_64. For desktops, I use PCLinuxOS 2007 business edition. It's only i386 at the moment (64bit soon), but it's mandrake/mandriva based so is a snap to administer and very easy to use. > 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. Michael.