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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200311121835.hACIZuOb024019 Linux Gilbert, >Tom, (I'm also cc'ing this to Dave Bukowski at College of DuPage) > >Sigh. > >I really don't know what to type here. > >I am back from my 10 day trip trip...just in time for 50+ MPH winds that >are about to hit us. You know about those, don't you? :-) Yes, we _do_ know about the winds here in Boulder. >Next to me, sitting in a box, is a nice shiny Pentium 4. With Red Hat >Linux on it. And that is a new problem. > >I have now caught up on my emails and frankly, I'm struggling as to what >to do. RedHat Linux is going bye-bye. I can't afford RH Enterprise. And, I >love Linux. I would suggest that you either move to the Fedora distribution -- which looks an awful lot alike RedHat 9 right at the moment -- or switch to a different distribution. We are still weighing options here at the UPC; we have Fedora loaded on two different machines at the moment. I can report that the LDM works like a champ under Fedora (no suprise), but I can't report on either McIDAS or GEMPAK. >So I went to Mandrake's site last night. Looks great, but I fear they may >go into the direction of RedHat. Then what? Do I play a game of reformat >the hard drive every 6 months? Good question. >My loathe of SunOS and Solaris is almost legendary now. I want to stick >with Linux. I am now a big fan of FreeBSD followed by Linux. I like Solaris x86, but its installation is a HUGE pain. >COD has run Debian for a good long while with no major >problems. However, I had major problems installing it. I couldn't get it >to do so over the Internet. However, that's when Napster was in full >swing, and bandwidth here was...a joke. Many folks are running Debian and liking it. >So I stare at my box, wondering what to do. Mandrake seems cool. But Dave >Bukowski runs Debian at COD with no problems, but it seems to be difficult >to set up and manage (unless that has changed). Fedora? >I'm all ears. I also need to know what UNIDATA intends to do with Linux >support, now that RH has thrown it's red hat out of the ring. We do not have an "official" policy at this time. Given your experience with RedHat Linux, I would recommend trying out Fedora. >If I am going to another Linux flavor, I might as well do it out of the >box! I agree. We can not advise you about this just yet, sorry. Tom