Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 19, 2004 06:13 PM
I cannot speak for other Americans but I can give you my 'opinion'?
SuSe is out of the question because of thier propritary software bundling and because Novell is sure to start stacking more propriatry products ontop of that. The live eval stuff, the only i386 downloads. I just do not apporove of the way they handle themselvs in general. The Novell VP or CEO (I cannot remember which) said they will soon rethink making thier products available for Red Hat which is a big red flag to me. People are still locked into edirectory and now they may want to lock in linux users, no thanks, good bye.
Mandrake could be a possibilty for desktop use but I will not base my company on a business that for 1.) is forked from RH in the first place so why bother and 2.) They were very close to bankruptcy which makes me nervous. And 3.) I do not care for GUI tools as I am not a newbie, If you do not need GUI tools what point would there be to swich from Red Hat if you like paying for Linux. I can live with the ad-ware and even the buggy software they've developed a reputation for having. But not for my place of business.
Debian is not a EU company and I have never used them myself only across networks. They would probably be where I would look to if Fedora, Red Hat ever fails to suit my desktop or business needs.
All in all I use Red Hat not cause they are a US company but because they make _enormous_ controbutions to OSS with the money I give to them. What other distro are you aware of that has bought a completly propriatry company (sistina) and opened the code as GPL within the first month of purchase, they didn't even hesitate. Everything is OSS to red hat and I think when they have money we all benifit. I look at This is my investment to ensure no lockin's and price competitiveness for the future. albeit a personal decision some might dis-agree with. We can all agree that Whitebox linux is sure to be a better distro than if someone made a SuSe fork due to licesnsing.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 19, 2004 06:13 PMSuSe is out of the question because of thier propritary software bundling and because Novell is sure to start stacking more propriatry products ontop of that. The live eval stuff, the only i386 downloads. I just do not apporove of the way they handle themselvs in general. The Novell VP or CEO (I cannot remember which) said they will soon rethink making thier products available for Red Hat which is a big red flag to me. People are still locked into edirectory and now they may want to lock in linux users, no thanks, good bye.
Mandrake could be a possibilty for desktop use but I will not base my company on a business that for 1.) is forked from RH in the first place so why bother and 2.) They were very close to bankruptcy which makes me nervous. And 3.) I do not care for GUI tools as I am not a newbie, If you do not need GUI tools what point would there be to swich from Red Hat if you like paying for Linux. I can live with the ad-ware and even the buggy software they've developed a reputation for having. But not for my place of business.
Debian is not a EU company and I have never used them myself only across networks. They would probably be where I would look to if Fedora, Red Hat ever fails to suit my desktop or business needs.
All in all I use Red Hat not cause they are a US company but because they make _enormous_ controbutions to OSS with the money I give to them. What other distro are you aware of that has bought a completly propriatry company (sistina) and opened the code as GPL within the first month of purchase, they didn't even hesitate. Everything is OSS to red hat and I think when they have money we all benifit. I look at This is my investment to ensure no lockin's and price competitiveness for the future. albeit a personal decision some might dis-agree with. We can all agree that Whitebox linux is sure to be a better distro than if someone made a SuSe fork due to licesnsing.
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