[lug] New Distro

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:30:38 -0600
gsexton at mhsoftware.com (George Sexton) wrote:

> It looks like I have to change Distros.
> 
> I've been using OpenSUSE for quite a while now and been extremely
> happy. Today, I went to install my bright new shiny OpenSuse 11 and
> found out something bad.
> 
> Basically, tons of packages are gone. Courier IMAP is gone,
> SquirrelMail is gone. Apache is there, but mod_jk is gone. In short,
> they've stripped out the stuff that people need to run a real server.
> So, I'm down to either paying for SLES or changing distributions.

Weird. Wonder why they would do that? Perhaps it's just moved to
another repo? 

> Is there a distribution that's RPM based that has a reasonable 
> upgrade/life cycle?

Well, depends on what you mean by 'reasonable'... ;) 

I like CentOS/RHEL for servers (7 year cycle there). 
I like Fedora for desktops (13months). 

YMMV. 

kevin

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