[olug] Mandrake 9.1

Jason Mollner jjmollner at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 9 20:02:37 UTC 2003


I was just joking, I'm sorry...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Peterson" <mpeterson at charles.omhcoxmail.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Mandrake 9.1


> I did not say I was a SCO lover.
> It was in use at work before I got there and that is what they converted
to
> from DG UNIX and NCR UNIX.
>
> SCO has great printer support.
> I am trying to get Linux to support the printers and get off of SCO.
>
> SCO is slower I/O on IDE.
> SCO does not support Journaling File Systems yet unless they added support
> in 5.07 that came out in February.
> SCO has network issues at times.
>
> I am in the process of running Red Hat Enterprise ES 2.1 to replace SCO.
> I may need to by the commercial CUPS package for printing.
> The Enterprise flavor gives you up to 5-7 years of package support.
> You do have to pay $799 per year after the first year.
> You do get ISO access and unlimited support during 9 AM to 9 PM.
>
> I still plan to use Redhat Pro or download for Web and Mail services.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Mollner" <jjmollner at hotmail.com>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Mandrake 9.1
>
>
> > Mike Peterson wrote:
> > "I use Red Hat because it is supported first on the packages I run and
> > because it is most similar in my opinion to SCO Openserver that I have
> been
> > supporting for many years."
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > I don't know if we can talk to eachother anymore....SCO lover! :)
> >
> > I had to use red hat at my old job and I have tried both suse and
mandrake
> > but I just can't seem to accept using a system that doesn't have debian
or
> > gentoo style package management.
> >
> > The concept of "releases" for linux distros really bothers me.  I don't
> like
> > the idea of "Red Hat 8.0" and "Red Hat 9.0"  There should just be:
> >
> > RED HAT -- a collection of packages maintaned and updated by people
> > at a place called Red Hat.
> >
> > With apt and emerge, it is possible to never have to install a new
system
> > again, you can just upgrade your distro how you like it forever...so why
> > do we need releases???  We could leave that to the Windows and Mac
> > people...
> >
> > just my .02 cents...
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