Hi everyone-
How many people are running Fedora Core?
How many people have purchased commercial RedHat support?
The reason I ask is I have been hearing bad things about Fedora, and I
have to admit their mailing-list and resources are horribly
disorganized, and their support strategy seems not well thought out.
As well, I am not inclined to reccomend paying for linux either.
RedHat is the Microsoft of the linux world to me.
(My experiences with running my own update server, and updating disprate
RedHat versions, left a bad taste in my mouth...)
And as much as Free/Open/NetBSD is near and dear to my heart, scientific
computing (MPI/Beowulf, et al) is done on linux.
That being said, I am trying to get an understanding of what others are
thinking/doing on the subject.
I have personally opted for Gentoo, which lets me compile _every_ system
binary optimized for Pentium4 (-march=pentium4). I have noticed dramatic
speed increases in openssl speed tests, as well as encoding DVDs to
SVCDs. However, the only "killer-app" for my department I have tested so
far for linux has been matlab, which runs but I am sure needs much more
testing. There are other apps I need to test before I can recommend this
for migrating research labs.
Anyone else tackling this for their department?
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