What Linux to use

[Bill Vermillion]

Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Thu, Sep 23 08:43  
Tony Freehauf missed achieving immortality when he said: 

> hi experts
> a customer running only filepro wants new & faster( 5 users).
>   i plan to upgrade them to a new server using linix and droping sco host
>   i have tested fp on linux - works well.
> What flavor of  linux is a good rock solid choice. I want to buy a box set so 
> the customer has someting to put on his shelf.
> your input will be valued.

In this last issue of Linux Pipeline a survey of their readers
showed the following.

Linux Distros Preferred by Linux Pipeline Readers:
SUSE/Novell, 26%, 342 votes out of 1338.
Mandrake, 14%, 189 votes
Red Hat, 13%, 178 votes
Debian, 9%, 122 votes
Fedora (Red Hat-Sponsored), 9%, 119 votes
Gentoo, 6%, 82 votes
Slackware, 5%, 73 votes
Other, including alternatives such as FreeBSD, 5%, 69 votes
Knoppix, 3%, 45 votes
Lindows/Linspire, 3%, 42 votes
Xandros, 3%, 41 votes
Sun Java Desktop, 2%, 24 votes
TurboLinux, 0%, 5 votes
Lycoris, 0%, 4 votes
Conectiva, 0%, 3 votes

Of course the survey is skewed as it only covers their readers,
but it seems like it was not that long ago that RH topped all the
lists.

You don't have a lot of choices when you want boxed sets.

SuSE and RedHat are at the forefront.  I did buy one set that was
Mandrake at one time when all the trades talked Linux and every
retail store had at least 5 different brands.

If you want manufactured/labeled CDs your choise are a bit broader,
but those technically aren't boxed sets.

Depending on the version of SCO the cheapest way out may just
be upgrading the hardware.

Bill


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com