Redhat AS 3 or SuSE enterprise 9
Hey guys, I am always appreciative of the advice you've given here in the past. I saved the...
Bruce I have used only Red Hat (since RHL 5.0), so I cannot speak about SuSE Enterprise 9. I presently run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES (no need for AS for me).
It works just fine. I am not sure what you mean by organized config scripts. Do you mean the .conf files inetc? Or the startup files mostly inetc-rc.d-init.d? Other than dial-up internet connections that come up almost right after initial installation, I have had little trouble. And the dial-up stuff, mostly inetc-sysconfig-network-scripts, were easy enough to do by examining the same thing in my previous (RHL 7.3) system. I tried demand dialing for the first time and that was something of a problem, but later software updates seem to have fixed the problem; i.e., it was not a configuration problem.
Jean-David Beyer Mainly because it simplifies duct design. Air blown out of a duct has some directionality, so it merely has to be...
BTW: if you choose Red Hat, go for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AS if you need it, or ES: consider carefully as the prices are different), not RHEL 3 (obsolescent).
My guess is that SuSE is probably good too. I have a binary-only closed-source product (IBM DB2 UDB) and it is certified only for RHEL and SuSE (or it was last time I looked). It may run on other distributions, but all bets are off.
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