On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:56, John Summerfied wrote: > > Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH announced > its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the Fedora project > because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted. > > We've dabbled in others including Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, > Mandrake/Mandribble and some others. > > I currently run Debian/Woody, Debian/Sarge, Ubuntu, FC3, SUSE 10 and > WBEL, so I know what the major alternatives are, If you want a free long-supported, very-much-FC3-like distribution, look at Centos4.x. The only substantial difference is having mysql 4.x and dropping some kernel modules (which an optional kernel rebuild adds back). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx