[ale] Another win for the good guys...

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Wed Aug 27 09:33:30 EDT 2003



Debian "is" a server distro which has the ability to add desktop support
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Thus spake Jim Lynch (jwl at sgi.com):

> I suspect they were rating server distros.  While you can set up Debian
> as a server, there isn't a separate distro for it, I don't think.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > 
> > I don't see Debian or Gentoo anywher in that list.  Maybe they wer too far
> > down on the bottom :)
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:54:10PM -0400, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> > > August 18 issue of InfoWorld magazine (p.34) ranks the top x86 platforms
> > > on its leaderboard...
> > >
> > > Mandrake ProSuite 9.1 rates     8.4 (very good)
> > > Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server ES 2.1 rates    7.9 (very good)
> > > SuSE Linux Enterprise Server rates    7.8 (very good)
> > > TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 rates   7.6 (very good)
> > > Microsoft Windows Server 2003 rates    7.0 (very good)
> > > Sun Solaris 9 for x86 rates    6.0 (good)
> > >
> > > About time someone put 'them' in their place...
> > > -Brian
> > >
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