Re: RedHat, Fedora & Gentoo

I'm experimenting with FreeBSD on a couple of machines for just this
reason. I managed to get 5.1 running stable, but only after recompiling
the kernel and reinstalling several packages. Foolish me, I should have
started with 4.9 which is supposed to be more stable.

I'm finding that compared to redhat, there is a lot less support, and
probably less users too.

If you want another version of linux, I've used Mandrake in the past and it
was superior to redhat.

Gordon

At 04:12 PM 12/2/2003 -0800, Ross Dmochowski wrote:
>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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