Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

[JRB Technology <jrbtech@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, actually my father was asking me about SUSE the other day. (
Here in the states. ) I'm just out of the loop. :-) I'm an old school
Slackware guy, mostly using Gentoo now.

Didn't redhat get discontinued anyway ? I think its Fedora now or
something like that....

-jim


On 5/2/05, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> interestingly enough, when iSeries/AS400 first started supporting linux,
> Rochester was very adamant - SUSE ONLY! ....guess their tune's
> changed....:)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Martin Rowe wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 02 May 2005 16:46, JRB Technology wrote:
> > > I would say IBM supports RedHat more then SUSE.
> >
> > Hi Jim
> >
> > Might still be true in the States, but IBM now are very supportive of SUSE
> > (having paid $50M to Novell when they bought SUSE). In the UK iSeries press
> > SUSE certainly seem to get more coverage.
> >
> > > Their Linux/ODBC Drivers are for RedHat........
> >
> > The drivers are in RPM format, but they install on SUSE just fine - as both
> > distributions use .rpm files for installation.
> >
> > > RedHat is more widely supported as well.
> >
> > Again, that might still be true in the States, but all the BPs I've spoken
> > to about iSeries Linux all recommend SUSE. In fact the BP we bought our
> > iSeries from are a RedHat authorised dealer, but now advocate SUSE for
> > their clients. I'm not sure why there seems to be a swing to SUSE, though
> > from when I looked, SUSE's prices and support packages appeared quite a bit
> > cheaper than RedHat.
> >
> > We have SUSE's SLES 9 running on a 1 CPU LPAR on our i825, but it's just R&D
> > at present. We were planning to trial WAS on there, to compare it to the
> > native OS/400 server, but as it turned out we went for the OS/400 version
> > anyway. I'm much more familiar with Debian (and derivatives, like Ubuntu)
> > but they are more tricky to install (though there are folk running Debian
> > on iSeries) and don't have the cosy support factor that RedHat/SUSE do.
> >
> > Regards, Martin
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