At 03:51 AM 4/30/2000 +0200, Rogier Maas wrote:
I too have used RedHat in the past. In my opinion, RedHat -is- already becoming a Micro$oft-like Linux-dist. How often do we hear conversations more or less like this:
Hmmm , In a slight way I do agree with you . Red hat has a realy nice slick logo , and it realy sticks to you.Easy to remember and stays there the next time you browse the isles. They have also done a lot of good marketing and started long before suse. They were the first to realy hit retial shelves. So they do have a big edge on "hype"
'What do you run in your company/at home?" "Linux" "What kind?" "What kind? eerr.. RedHat? (what else?)" I really have *never* heard anyone say SuSE, Caldera, SlackWare or ay other dist. If you're running Linux, you're running RedHat Linux (what else). That's almost asking what OS you're running on your PC at home. "Windoze *of course*". No OS/2, Linux, BeOS or other OS'ses.
I agree with you on that one. At the local NYC linux group (NYLUG/LUNY) I think I was the only one using Suse. This was about six months ago. Heven been to any meeting lately. Red hat owns most of the teritory.
I personally like SuSE, and I'm stickin' with it. Never had any serious trouble with it. I never had such great support, service (the Powered-by-SuSE stickers!) and fun using other software/hardware/(N)OS.
When I tested linux out , Was with Suse 5.3 boxed set. Piad 69.00 for it at borders in N.J. Why suse , It was the ONLY distro that HAD PNONE SUPORT. Red Hat had only email suport. As a totaly newbie I wanted to be able to get ahpold of a real humon on the phone. That is what put it ahead of the pack. I has also heard a number of comliants about redhat and there not suporting certian hardware. Once I got my hands dirty with yasy I was I started to realy like what I saw. But What realy does make a big impression is the mailing list. Every one here is so helpfull and there are so meny that chime in , regardless of how stupid the question or how meny times its been posted before. You get anbswers and diffreent solutions.
As far as I'm concerned, SuSE, Caldera, Slackware, etc aren't paying enough attention to marketing, as RedHat does.
I have to agree with you here. I would also like to see better printer suport and beter suport for the newer hardware. I am well aware of the dificulty of this due to the manufacturees not helping. But this realy does need to be addressed , especialy if they want to realy push into the windows market. Matter of fact I plan on loading corel linux and corel Ofiice 2000 Delux just to check out the printer suport. Thats how important it is to me. Whats realy good about the open source is the ability to see other code and build on it. Keeps every one in check. even Red Hat , as they MUST release the code. Even Corel must do the same. Remember the noise created when they did not include it on the demno version or whatebver it was. THey have done a lot in a very short time withthere l9inux os and office 2000 product. Now if only they can suport it and clean up the problems with it. Time will tell.
Rogier
"Victor R. Cardona" wrote:
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I have used both Red Hat and SuSE in my first year as a Linux user. I like them both. Unfortunately, Red Hat has gained an edge on the competition out there through no fault of its own. I am not saying that they will be the next Microsoft. I think that is absurd. However, they may unwillingly reduce competition between the distributions if most software will only install out of the box on a Red Hat Linux system. ...snip
Thanks for hearing me out,
Steve
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