Well, remember that you can always download RH for free from their website
or from the mirros. In Brazil we have lots of on-line stores who sells the
same downloaded version recorded on CDs for less than US$ 10.

[]s

Carlos
WarmBoot Informatica - http://www.warmboot.com.br
Interbase-BR - http://www.interbase-br.com

PS> 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).
>>

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

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

PS> Paul
PS> Paul Schmidt
PS> Tricat Technologies
PS> paul@...
PS> www.tricattechnologies.com


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