Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Josephine <Josephine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 21:34, Sheridan West wrote:
> Redhat might be big now in servers but they have no
> **recent** 'desktop' client.  Yes there is community
> fedora stuff but thats not really 'redhat'.
>
> Redhat gave up on 'desktop unix' - make your head
> think about that.
>
Wrong. You make a confussion between "dropping official support" and "dropping 
WS distro". There is a version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS that does just 
workstation. Just like NLD.

> I'm not sure i want to pay redhat bucks for a lamp
> server. - I can do that 9.2 professional.  Redhat
> works for pointy haired bosses that need 'support' (or
> those who buy sco liciences)
>
If you are an enterprise, you pay for RH or SLES. Sles sells as well to those 
"hairy bosses" that just understand the need of enterprise and don't play 
sysadmining home, with 3 pcs and a suse professional box running apache the 
the powerfull mysql database.

Josephine