[Techtalk] RedHat - Fedora Linux - alternatives?

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:13 pm, Eeva Järvinen wrote:
> Hmm.  Fedora having mailing-list-only support means I'll switch.  Any
> opinions on SuSE?  I've understood it has something similar to up2date,
> called YaST2.  Is it any good?  Are SuSE's servers well available?  How's
> the Gnome support?  SuSE's website lists Gnome 2.2 as being supported, but
> does it have hidden problems?
>
> What I want is some sort of commercial backing; I'm sure I could work my
> way through slackware, Debian or perhaps even GNU/Hurd, but I don't want
> to; there're more important things in my life.  I'm willing to pay some
> money for a good quality update service; I don't need the very latest
> software (but I do want Gnome 2 or newer+new or backport-security-patched
> sendmail+mutt), I dislike very bleeding-edge technology (too much work).
>
>

Have you looked at Ximian? I think Red Carpet is the best upgrade/software 
installation/system update utility there is. Yes, even better than apt.  And 
it's based on Gnome. And they offer commercial support. 

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