On Dec 29, 2007 8:40 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kam Leo wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 7:24 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Novell Corporation is the principle sponsor of openSUSE. openSUSE has > > an enterprise version with full support. > > > Yeah. I think that I remember now. They have a 'free' and a 'buy me' > edition right? Yes. The "buy me" includes a manual and some level of support. (Red Hat drop such offerings and switched to Fedora.) Novell, offers enterprise versions under the SUSE brand: http://www.novell.com/linux/ > > > Says whom? Fedora is a test bed for Red Hat RHEL. Samba, apache, Open > > Office, Gnome, and KDE are just applications running on top of the > > latest version of the Linux OS. Which packages you install determines > > whether your machine is a server, a desktop, or a hybrid. > > > i will let the "Fedora people' respond to that. I am sure that you will > disagree with what they have to say here. > > > > Please tell me how the kernel, Apache, and Samba packages in the other > > server distributions are any better than the ones provided with > > Fedora. > > > Only that 'distributions' such as RHEL, or CentOS, or others like them > *are* server oriented. Fedora 8, for example, is obviously a desktop > type distribution. You did notice that apache is not on the DVD did you not? > > I did not say that packages were different or better. but if I was going > to setup a server I would *use* a server installation. Linux, or > Microsoft, or Mac. > > I would not expect Windows XP Home/pro to be a server installation for > example. I would expect RHEL to be a server. Understand? Why not? IIS has been available for Windows 2000/XP Pro for a long time. > - -- > David
