Odesílatel: Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU> I'm not excited about converting to the RH Enterprise distribution and so am beginning to shop around for a different, a possibly better, distribution--something stable, well integrated, complete, and with a rational release cycle, stable SMP support, and support for AMD Athlon and AMD-64 processors. There are a number of candidate--Suse, Mandrake, Debian, etc.

Anyone care to document their experiences, good and bad?

good: Mandrake 9.1 (install all into RAID-1 include swap (if you have only one drive too! Later you could put second drive), use XFS journalling filesystem. bad: Windows NT2k (MANY problems)

One of the nicest features of the RedHat system was/is the RedHat network which makes it possible to upgrade off the net quickly and easily. While

it's not really a requirement, I would miss it if an equivalent service were not available.

mandrake have kind of updates too, but free. JL.