On Dec 29, 2007 8:39 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 20:20 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 7:24 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Kam Leo wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2007 2:48 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Neither openSuSE nor Fedora are end-all products. Both distributions > > > > make decent servers. However, neither is ready to replace Microsoft's > > > > Windows OS and the applications for that OS. Some day perhaps; just > > > > not today. > > > > > > > > > I am not familiar openSuSE. But I thought that, from what I have read, > > > that openSuSE was a desktop oriented type distribution. > > > > Novell Corporation is the principle sponsor of openSUSE. openSUSE has > > an enterprise version with full support. > ---- > I am not knowledgeable here but what I see on > http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org > says "openSUSE also provides the base for Novell's award-winning SUSE > Linux Enterprise products" which has an entirely different meaning. I > suspect you are being imprecise. Perhaps.Novell's offerings: http://www.novell.com/linux/ > ---- > > Says whom? Fedora is a test bed for Red Hat RHEL. > ---- > I'd be interested to see what evidence you offer for this besides just a > gut feeling. I've seen similar comments but they seem to be spouted by > people who simply don't know anything empirically. I haven't seen that > comment made by anyone from Red Hat but perhaps you have and can point > out a link to me. Check sponsorship for Fedora. Red Hat tried to make Fedora a stand-a-lone, non-profit, entity and failed. > ---- > > 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. > ---- > yes, but they aren't necessarily well tested because they tend to be > more bleeding edge Any distribution using the 2.6 kernel is more bleeding edge than one running the 2.4 based kernel. > ---- > > > I see no problem, your choice of course, how many distributions you wish > > > to run. I would not think, if it was me, that I would run a desktop > > > distribution as a true server. > > > > > > May I ask why you do that? When there are several, many, good server > > > oriented distributions, run desktop oriented distributions as servers? > > > > Please tell me how the kernel, Apache, and Samba packages in the other > > server distributions are any better than the ones provided with > > Fedora. > ---- > I think that given your knowledge level, you already know the issues > anyway and have concluded that for your purposes, you will choose > something that is newer over that which is considered more stable and > known. If I were using a server in a production environment I would use something like BSD or RHEL My usage is strictly in a testing/evaluation environment and I'm free to try whatever I like. > Given SuSE's (Novell) acknowledgment of Microsoft patents contained in > their 'deal', I would never install SuSE - but hey, that's just me. > > Craig > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
