On Dec 29, 2007 8:40 PM, David Boles <dgboles(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Kam Leo wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 7:24 PM, David Boles <dgboles(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> Novell Corporation is the principle sponsor of openSUSE. openSUSE has
> an enterprise version with full support.
Yeah. I think that I remember now. They have a 'free' and a 'buy me'
edition right?
Yes. The "buy me" includes a manual and some level of support. (Red
Hat drop such offerings and switched to Fedora.) Novell, offers
enterprise versions under the SUSE brand:
http://www.novell.com/linux/
> Says whom? Fedora is a test bed for Red Hat RHEL. Samba, apache, Open
> Office, Gnome, and KDE are just applications running on top of the
> latest version of the Linux OS. Which packages you install determines
> whether your machine is a server, a desktop, or a hybrid.
i will let the "Fedora people' respond to that. I am sure that you will
disagree with what they have to say here.
> Please tell me how the kernel, Apache, and Samba packages in the other
> server distributions are any better than the ones provided with
> Fedora.
Only that 'distributions' such as RHEL, or CentOS, or others like them
*are* server oriented. Fedora 8, for example, is obviously a desktop
type distribution. You did notice that apache is not on the DVD did you not?
I did not say that packages were different or better. but if I was going
to setup a server I would *use* a server installation. Linux, or
Microsoft, or Mac.
I would not expect Windows XP Home/pro to be a server installation for
example. I would expect RHEL to be a server. Understand?
Why not? IIS has been available for Windows 2000/XP Pro for a long time.
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David