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<P><SPAN class=RVTS6>J> If it's total peace of mind that you want and you don't mind paying for a</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=RVTS6>J> support contract then I would suggest Red Hat Enterprise WS (work station).</SPAN></P>
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<P>If you want the stability of Red Hat Enterprise without the corresponding price tag you might try looking at the numerous recompiles around such as WhiteBox Enterprise Linux, http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/, or Centos, http://www.centos.org/. I've personally used White Box in a commercial environment and found it to be very stable and (so far) fully compatible with any and all RH EL packages (both commercial and open source offerings). That said Red Hat EL + alternatives are by no means at the cutting edge of Linux offerings and as such you may have problems with newer hardware not being supported by the supplied kernels.</P>
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<P><SPAN class=RVTS11>Best regards,</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=RVTS11> Rob </SPAN><A class=RVTS12 href="mailto:rhall@wincommander.co.uk">mailto:rhall@wincommander.co.uk</A></P>
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