What Linux to use

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----- Forwarded message from "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> -----

> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> To: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:08:42 -0400
> Subject: Re: What Linux to use
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:19:41AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > So while the rest of their dist may be solid, the core kernel base is not
> > something I trust yet.  So I say stick with 9.0 Professional.
> 
> Concur.  Got it in the firld several places; no major hassles yet,
> though it is a small learning curve to get used to how YaST sets things
> up.
> 
> Almost all of my /usr/local collection worked out fo the box, though.
> 
> My only architectural quibble at the moment is their moving of the
> scripts in what used to be /etc/rc.d/init.d *up* one directory, so
> they're mingled with other stuff.  Semantically, I think that was a bad
> idea; system admin directories should have either one type of object,
> or a complete mishmash, not "a few".
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
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> 	but if God merely wanted us to smell the flowers, he wouldn't 
> 	have invented a 3GHz microprocessor and a 3D graphics board."
> 					-- Luke Girardi

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