[ale] Distro question...

[Jerald Sheets]

I don't think you'll see SuSE going anywhere any time soon.

Novell bought them, and IBM also fully supports them on their power
architecture.  It's one of only two istros that will run in an LPAR on
an RS/6000 p-series.

Too much support from heavy hitters in the IT game.

--Jerald


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 07:33 -0600, Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay Finch wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >> That's a very good point, Jonathan!  My only concern is that Redhat
> > >>  doesn't offer support for RH9 any longer, and there's a
> > >> possibility that the support through Fedoralegacy.org will
> > >> eventually be discontinued.  I don't want to be the situation I was
> > >> (until last November) where I have an outdated Distro (RH 6.2) with
> > >> no easy update path.  (I purged and went to RH9 because the server
> > >> got compromised.)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Wondering .... If that is the main concern, then perhaps Suse and
> > > Slackware could also possibly present problems in the future ?? 
> > > Debian may be the best bet.
> > 
> > I've upgraded SuSE from 6.0 to 9.2, I don't think that's going to be a 
> > problem.  I don't think you'll have a problem with Slack updates either.
> 
> Hmm. My concern was more along the lines of the possibility of free 
> upgrade support for Suse/Slackware being eventually discontinued at some 
> point in the future. I perceive the likelihood of that happening with 
> Debian, as being somewhat lower.
>