On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, David Willcox wrote:
I've been told by some individuals that Redhat is the standard and to stick with it because they have more updates and etc. I am a bit confused because I needed 'cdrecord' and Redhat didn;t have it on the Box set and SuSe seems to have everything including Gnome and KDE.
Redhat may be the most popular dist but it isn't "the standard". And as you've seen, SuSE provides many more tools right out of the box.
I have a hired gun that wants to change all if my installs to Redhat Original 6.1 because he states that he can hook up a LAN between the windows box to the Linux box with Redhat and Not SuSE.
If he can't do it with SuSE then he really should not be a hired gun. He should go back and study Linux a bit more before he is hiring out his services. I would find someone else if possible. In most of these places where
Linux is in use they like it but they like but they use windows too so I was trying to get some ideas about how they can have both. I was told if I get a LAN connected these businesses could do their Digital Camera and Scanners stuff in Windows and I could copy and store the files in Windows and cp them over If I ever need them.
It shouldn't be a problem with any of the distros.
PS. Is it very hard to install and compile a recent downloaded version of 'cdrecord' to Linux? This is one of the reasons this guy wants to change things. He claims he knows how to do this and it's worth a lot.
No, it's normally pretty simple. You can go with binary RPMs for both Redhat and SuSE or even installing from source. I would standardize on SuSE so I would have the best combo of usability and variety of apps out of the box. I switched to SuSE about a year ago because it has almost everything I need. Greg -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/