[olug] Mandrake 9.1

[Mike Peterson]

I did not say I was a SCO lover.
It was in use at work before I got there and that is what they converted to
from DG UNIX and NCR UNIX.

SCO has great printer support.
I am trying to get Linux to support the printers and get off of SCO.

SCO is slower I/O on IDE.
SCO does not support Journaling File Systems yet unless they added support
in 5.07 that came out in February.
SCO has network issues at times.

I am in the process of running Red Hat Enterprise ES 2.1 to replace SCO.
I may need to by the commercial CUPS package for printing.
The Enterprise flavor gives you up to 5-7 years of package support.
You do have to pay $799 per year after the first year.
You do get ISO access and unlimited support during 9 AM to 9 PM.

I still plan to use Redhat Pro or download for Web and Mail services.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Mollner" <jjmollner at hotmail.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Mandrake 9.1


> Mike Peterson wrote:
> "I use Red Hat because it is supported first on the packages I run and
> because it is most similar in my opinion to SCO Openserver that I have
been
> supporting for many years."
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> I don't know if we can talk to eachother anymore....SCO lover! :)
>
> I had to use red hat at my old job and I have tried both suse and mandrake
> but I just can't seem to accept using a system that doesn't have debian or
> gentoo style package management.
>
> The concept of "releases" for linux distros really bothers me.  I don't
like
> the idea of "Red Hat 8.0" and "Red Hat 9.0"  There should just be:
>
> RED HAT -- a collection of packages maintaned and updated by people
> at a place called Red Hat.
>
> With apt and emerge, it is possible to never have to install a new system
> again, you can just upgrade your distro how you like it forever...so why
> do we need releases???  We could leave that to the Windows and Mac
> people...
>
> just my .02 cents...
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