On 1 Jan 2002, at 12:32, David K. Trudgett wrote:

> On Monday 2001-12-31 at 08:37:10 -0600, M Tuttle wrote:
>
> Those are the most popular distributions, and not without reason. Any
> of those three (and others not mentioned) would do the job. SuSE is
> popular in Europe, and some seem to like it. Mandrake and Red Hat are
> pretty close, as Mandrake is based on Red Hat, so is basically the
> same thing (although differentiation will no doubt occur). However, I
> don't find any compelling reason to choose Mandrake or SuSE over Red
> Hat, which has had a long and distinguished reputation within the
> Linux community (especially ISPs -- the owner/director of my old ISP
> first recommended to me to use Red Hat, and I've never regretted it --
> it's a first class, well-tested system). Red Hat also has benefits
> related to popularity (most major software vendors will officially
> support Red Hat first). A specific problem with SuSE is it's inability
> to use RPM software packages (I believe that's still the case, though
> I haven't heard anything about it for the last few months).
>

Actually a good reason to not choose RH is that RH is getting
pretty expensive, I just checked prices, RH was CDN$89,
Mandrake was CDN$39, the budget was CDN$50, Mandrake won
that one...

As for SUSE, you can download the source for RPM, and build
your own copy of RPM, mind you the latest FB RPMs mention a
SUSE feature during the install phase, so there may be support
there now.

Paul
Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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