Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning (fwd)

[Travis Owens <openbook@linuxmds.com>]

My vote is SUSE.

I know they were just bought by Novell, but I'm still using them until
I'm given a serious reason not to.

SUSE has an incredible desktop environment (KDE is the primary focus),
and YAST (SUSE's configuration tool) is a very robust and intuitive
program.

Also, being familiar with SUSE, you may want to recommend them at work,
considering they're very serious in the Enterprise environment too.

Since you don't need serious manuals for using Linux, I would recommend
the SUSE 9.0 Professional Update. (using the word "update" very loosely)
It's not really an update, it's the same software you get in the
Professional version of their distro releases, just w/o the books and
fancy box. You get 2 DVDs and 5 CDs.  (pretty nice...) ;)

http://store.suse.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?xid=40017&SP=10023&PN=1&V1=614096&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

You can check out screen shots here:

http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/index.html

HTH,
Travis


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:15, KoReE wrote:
> My issue is not from a usage standpoint.  I've done everything from
> Slackware, to SuSE, to Caldera, to Redhat.  My issue is with the desktop
> environment.  I can handle setting up even the most difficult of
> distributions.  My issue is more about ease of setup, and default
> configuration.  I just don't know how far advanced the other distros are
> now, and which ones do/don't suck.  For my home environment, I prefer
> something that takes little thought to set up, and has a nice, slick
> desktop.  And, I'd prefer something that uses RPMs.  While I know how to
> handle source, I just don't like to do it except on servers :D
> 
> This affects the company I work for a great deal.  We have in the
> neighborhood of 15,000 Redhat servers.  That's a fairly large EOL
> migration...
> 
> Koree
> 
> ____________________________________
> Koree A. Smith  | Ameth Technologies
> koree@koree.net | koree@ameth.org
>      http://www.koree.net/
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Travis Owens wrote:
> 
> > Koree,
> >
> > I'm not going to answer your question directly, because I can't w/o some
> > more info.
> >
> > Having used many distros, and many different desktop setups on these
> > distros, each distro is a little different, and you need to figure out
> > what you're going to do with your setup before you pick the distro you
> > want.
> >
> > If you want a solid desktop, designed around the end user and *NOT* an
> > admin or serious programmer, you would do well to look at Xandros, or
> > Lycoris, or (gulp) even Lindows.
> >
> > If you're a programmer and really don't need a ton of fluff, and would
> > much prefer a stable box or a streamlined approach, you'd probably favor
> > the Gentoo or regular Debian distros.
> >
> > If you're a network admin and like a lot of tools and extra stuff, you
> > would probably favor the SUSE distro and perhaps the Libranet distro.
> >
> > Obviously, this is a very serious change, considering by your previous
> > comments, you've been with RH for a *long* time. You'll have to
> > "unlearn" your linux knowledge, and re-learn it in another fashion (not
> > every command, but basic distro specific concepts)
> >
> > If you need help in SUSE, I can school you pretty well, and fairly good
> > with Debian based distros. Not so hot on Gentoo, (primarily b/c I've not
> > had time to try it seriously)
> >
> > Best advice, find someone physically that's using another distro and use
> > that if possible. They'll be able to help you out on specifics. Makes
> > the transition a lot easier!
> >
> > HTH,
> > Travis.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 01:22, Koree A. Smith wrote:
> > > Didn't know if you guys had seen this.  Didn't see it on the list
> > > anywhere....
> > >
> > > Anyone have an idea of where I should move for my desktop linux?  I
> > > haven't really messed with other distros for quite a while.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Travis Owens <openbook@linuxmds.com>
> >
> >
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