[Cumbria] Red Hat shoots itself in foot?

[Ken Hough]

Paul,

According to the SuSE v8.0 Reference Manual,

Quote:

 "Let's start with the the minimum SuSE Linux install : 180 MB. This 
works only if you use the machine for a simple purpose, for example, you 
only work on a text console (no X Window System). If you want to take a 
look at X and start a few applications, you will need 500 MB. Both 
include swap."

I'm about to try this on an old K5 PC with 64 MB of RAM.

BTW, SuSE gives colour for 'ls', etc by default.

With a bit of ANSI code in my '.profile' files, I've also got colour on 
my prompts, depending on user. ie root in red, normal user in blue (or 
whatever you want).

Before I get flamed for mentioning my favourite distro, this is not a 
sales pitch, only an offer of (possibly) helpful info'.


Ken




Paul Broomfield wrote:

> 
>To be honest I am also rethinking my OS strategy at the moment. Almost
>all the production environment runs redhat and I am getting a bit sick
>of the upgrade treadmill. I have also had yet another up2date -u turn
>into a reboot request. I am now seriously looking again at BSD this time
>FreeBSD. ( I did develop on OpenBSD and gave up because I had to emulate
>everything ). I am beginning to see the benefit in actually paying for
>an OS though I still think that $1000 is just way over the top. For me I
>just need a nice clean base OS that has some form of package management
>and where it is easy to update things when they go wrong. FreeBSD was
>quite an easy install, and so far I have managed to get all the console
>toys installed without any fuss at all ( color ls and all that ). I have
>done an install without any X at all ( just the way I like it ) and the
>whole thing takes up less than 600M. I am going to have a go at
>battering it a little bit and see how we get on.
>
>What I want to know is why oh why is Redhat and others focusing on the
>Desktop side of things? I would pay for a version of Linux that had
>automatic patches and nothing what so ever to do with X. I can dream. 
>
>Paul Broomfield
>