[Techtalk] Considering an OS change

[Lorne Gutz]

Jennifer,

          Check out several.....only you can decide what is best for you.
Two years ago I checked out Redhat, Mandrake, Cauldra, and SuSe.
Well for me SuSe had more of what I wanted.   We now run it as our
OS on approx 35 computers.  We use it for servers ( DNS, NIS, NFS,
and more than one web server).  We have 3 different mySQL data
bases running raid boxes.  Then there are several people like me
who have abandoned $MS totally and use it as a desktop.

         The new guy I hired last month has Redhat experience and
he loved the ease of installation.  

        I like it because I know several people here in Ottawa who 
use is, so help is just a phone call away.   


      Good luck on what ever you choose.

cheers
Lorne




On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:44, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> As much as I like ^H^H^H^H love Slackware, I find that I have less time to
> manage it and was thinking of running an easier OS for my router pc and
> maybe the desktop and also to see Linux done differently.  I was pondering
> Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9.1.  I guess I was wondering if there were things
> that I should know beforehand that will make a switchover easier.  I have
> always been iffy on using Mandrake as a server.  Are my feelings
> irrational?
>
> I have 3 users inside the network and about 10 remotely and I plan to use
> the router to do masquerading, webserving, mail database, remote shell &
> ftp.