[Wolves] Red Hat Enterprise Server

[Peter Cannon]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 16:07, sparkes wrote:

> you can compare Debian to any linux distro in any market and it compares
> well.
>
> It probably runs more servers than RHE and more desktops than Fedora and
> it does it all by being free.

Ooh Sparkes, I cant help myself, compared to you and others on this list I 
know nothing about Linux but I think your defending the distro you love a bit 
too much.

I'd not heard of Debian when I first got into this witchcraft, I had heard of 
Suse and Red Hat (when it was free) this speaks volumes.
I'm confident you know more than me in respect of businesses that use Linux 
(please note I said Linux) I do know more businesses than you who use 
Windows.

Surprisingly a lot of them use Linux bits on their Server such as Spamassasin. 
We even use bits ourselves predominantly they are from Red Hat I think your 
stretching the truth a bit by saying Debian runs more Servers than RHE if 
anything the clear winner (at the moment) for Servers is Suse. :-)

> If decision makers can't learn the difference between free and free then
> they are obvously not in a position to be making business decisions.

What planet have you been living on up to now? a good 85% of UK management 
should not be in a position to make decisions! As a Sales Manager and having 
been in sales for 20 years I have met all levels of management and over most 
of England (not just the West Midlands) some have come across as competant 
sadly the majority have been idiots and should have L & R tattooed on their 
hands so they know left from right.

> oh and the current stable version 3.0(r3) is a month old and has
> thousands of supported packages with the next version (sarge) having
> lots more in the pipline ;-)

From what little I know Debian is a good distro if you know what your doing, 
judging by the amount of posts on the Internet compared to other flavours I 
don't think its for me and there lays the problem if I was running a business 
thats what I would look at who has the least posts for help I'm fairly 
certain Debian would top the list for most requests for help, oh and that 
does not translate to has the most users either. :-0

I love the title 'Stable' every man and his dog claims it even Windows the 
other one I like is 'Powerful application' powerful at what, oh you mean it 
will do what its supposed to do there just words they don't mean anything.
I was told when I first got hooked "Linux is a very very stable distribution 
it dose'nt crash like Windows" what a load of old shoe repairers I've had 
crashes, lockups and freezes.

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Regards
Peter Cannon
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

"There is every excuse for not knowing
but there is no excuse for not asking"