It seems I am not the only one going out for Mandrake after the new Red Hat policy.
At home, I use exclusively Debian, but I also give courses and we settled for Red Hat two years ago. I must say that the experience was not entirely positive. Certain parts of the grafical interface, notably around GNOME, tend to generate kernel panics.
For this year, I put out the message to base all our courses for this school year on Red Hat 9.
However, with the changed policy, we can not really afford to use Red Hat AS, because it is too costly for a school, we do not have the time to download the sources and compile it ourselves, and I do not want give a course on something that may be not too stable. Although most people have the opportunity to download and burn CD's, I feel that one should give a course based on things that one can buy in the store.
Another thing is that maybe next year we will start giving courses OpenOffice/StarOffice on Linux desktops.
This, together with the acquisition of Suse by Novell, led me to opt for Mandrake. Maybe the fact that it is for the moment the only distribution that is completely European plays a role.
So, in the coming weeks I will be testing Mandrake 9.2, adapt my courses and find out which bugs could bother me. I think that Mandrake is also as well a distribtion as any other for server usage, especially since in a country as small as ours (Belgium) people tend to opt to use simple white box systems as servers.
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Posted by: defurnej on December 02, 2003 05:52 PMAt home, I use exclusively Debian, but I also give courses and we settled for Red Hat two years ago. I must say that the experience was not entirely positive. Certain parts of the grafical interface, notably around GNOME, tend to generate kernel panics.
For this year, I put out the message to base all our courses for this school year on Red Hat 9.
However, with the changed policy, we can not really afford to use Red Hat AS, because it is too costly for a school, we do not have the time to download the sources and compile it ourselves, and I do not want give a course on something that may be not too stable. Although most people have the opportunity to download and burn CD's, I feel that one should give a course based on things that one can buy in the store.
Another thing is that maybe next year we will start giving courses OpenOffice/StarOffice on Linux desktops.
This, together with the acquisition of Suse by Novell, led me to opt for Mandrake. Maybe the fact that it is for the moment the only distribution that is completely European plays a role.
So, in the coming weeks I will be testing Mandrake 9.2, adapt my courses and find out which bugs could bother me. I think that Mandrake is also as well a distribtion as any other for server usage, especially since in a country as small as ours (Belgium) people tend to opt to use simple white box systems as servers.
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