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I wish I could talk you out of it, because I would like to talk myself out of it. I have all my backup boxes, DNS, firewall and my primary DNS all on redhat 8 9 for my web hosting OP . My production firewall is Redhat ES.  I think SuSe with Novell is a winning combination for the future... It will take some time getting used to the differences in the interface and minor differences in the way things are installed... :-)
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> > > Now I'd like someone to talk me out of switching all of my Linux boxes
> > > to SuSE.  Please help, it would save me a lot of time NOT to convert.
> > 
> > You won't hear much from me.  I'm thinking about doing the same thing.  
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> You guys are no help.  :-)
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> > ALSA out-of-the box
> > XFS/ACL out-of-the-box
> > Cyrus IMAPd out-of-the-box
> > 
> >  - Three really pain in the butt packages I *NEED*
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> You've got the "pain" part right!  For example, today Redhat/Fedora
> released new kernels.  I'm thinking that I need to find ALSA drivers for
> them, but they won't be RPM's available for download anywhere for a few
> days.  So I'll end up compiling the kernel modules myself, again ...
> It might be easier to switch to SuSE instead!
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> > Now (or soon to be) the same company as Ximian!  Hopefully they'll stop wasting
> > so much time on KDE.
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> One minor downside of SuSE 9 is Gnome is version 2.2.  Fedora has 2.4.
> But I figure that if that becomes a issue, I'll install Ximian gnome.
> (so far it's not an issue for me)
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> > RedHat seems to have fallen asleep recently, IMHO.  Or their target audience has
> > shifted away from "me".  Some of their packages are really stale,  for server
> > side stuff I expected more forward-motion in RH9 than I saw - but the desktop
> > (CUPS, etc...) improvements were great.
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> I have a problem with their new business model too.
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> I don't mind paying for a quality distribution (I bought SuSE 9.0 pro),
> but I _do_ mind paying for updates.  That's where RH blew 
> it for me.
> (Fedora has other issues)
> 
> - BS
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