[KLUG Members] Re: Latest SUSE stability? -- what "features" are you looking for (desktop or server)? (fwd)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>SuSE does a lot of things RedHat doesn't, out of sheer "kitchen sink" 
>mentality.

So long as the sink has both hot-n-cold running water...

>As does Mandrake, only more out of sheer "bleeding (and badly ;-) edge."

Nope, no Mandrake in this shop.  I'd rather use NT.

*I haven't used Mandrake in some time,  but after my last experience..... 
it will be awhile before that happens again.  'Cause if you screw up on 
something like glibc; no much else matters.

>SGI's XFS also runs quite smoothly atop of RedHat distros -- and I'd recommend
>that over any distro that ships with it natively.  I also like its feature set
>versus ReiserFS, and the performance difference is debateable (it all about what
>you serve, XFS can be faster than ReiserFS for some things -- especially large
> filesysetms).

XFS over RH (currently 7.1) is what is used now.  Thats the most likely 
choice,  but I'm investigating other possibilities.  Some SASL things we 
do, and a couple of sendmail tweaks, are wanting newer libs and stuff.