[luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE

[Dan George]

I know that if you come in to CompUSA you will notice more people follow the
ads not really trying to get the latest gadgets that come out. They may look
hard and calculate the cost then head over to the sale items. Most of the
time the small to medium sized business people get the emachines. They dont
buy a good backup program like Veritas and then come in screaming less than
six months later because they didnt buy extended warranty for the three
years or lost all their customer data.
Some of them are even foolish enough to try and run XP for a business PC or
the IMAC (now EMAC).  It drives me crazy that they dont realize that you get
what you pay for. Id rather keep my P3-500, which hasnt failed in three
years, than go out and buy the latest PC. Intel came out with a MLB, CPU and
DDR (256) for $179. They threw in a RAID board if you bought the CPU
P4-1.6 to P4-2.0 and DDR RAM for $165 for $14.  They meant $114 but due to a
typo, they had to sell at that price and a couple techs bought it. I wish I
could have had that deal. AMD is coming out with special soon. The only
thing I didnt like about the board was that besides the RAID, Onboard sound
and video it didnt have onboard SCSI. I prefer a board with just onboard
SCSI and maybe RAID not sound or video.

-----Original Message-----
From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
[mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of W. Wayne Liauh
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:38 PM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: [luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE


<Presumably, you'd have one person deciding what hardware to have on all
machines, not a bunch of people running out to CompUSA and plugging in
every new gadget that comes out.>

Exactly.  In order to have a successful "Linux revolution", you must
play dictatorship on the hardware selection.  Most businesses buy their
computers from Dell.  For business Linux desktops, the mini PC that I
mentioned in an earlier post

http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-July/009085.html

can be a very good starting point (for being very quite and compact).

On the Linux distros of "Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE", since XFree86
4.2.0 has improved so much, hardware is much less of an issue.  The key
issues are the packages being included (why Mandrake is better than Red
Hat for desktop use), and how openly and attentively the distro is being
beta-tested (why Mandrake is now better than SuSE).

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