On 25/07/2004, at 9:19 PM, Craig Box wrote:
I wrote a SuseLinux page, incidentally a year ago Tuesday, that read "SuSE is a German Linux distribution that has the same sort of importance in Europe as RedHatLinux has in the rest of the world. It's never had much of a following in New Zealand."
Which is almost all that is objective on that web page.
I stand by all those statements; Aristotle wrote all the rest of it and he's in Germany!
So what if he's in Germany? What has that got to do with evaluating it? Linices should be evaluated on objective issues, not on the country you happen to live in.
Sounds like you like SUSE (and Novell like the all caps thing),
I have used Suse and find it ok. It also has it shortcomings which I have iterated in other postings, and have questioned whether it was the right choice for us. I do not have enough experience of other Linices to know whether they may be better. But I can sure can tell you that that webpage had practically nothing on it that could assist me in evaluating it.
and don't think all that much of Red Hat.
Redhat knowingly put out an official Linux distributed compiled with a faulty compiler. That, in my books, is an arrogance and a mistake of such catastrophic and unacceptable proportions that I will never ever consider Redhat again. They have demonstrated their ethic and extraordinary lack of judgement. They have done it once, and knowingly. They have lost my trust and my business. Michael.