[lug] New Distro

[George Sexton]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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? 

Yeah, that was it. Courier IMAP, Mod_JK, and most of the other things 
were in another on-line repository. I'm sort of annoyed because I looked 
in the package list and the stuff wasn't there.

> 
>> Is there a distribution that's RPM based that has a reasonable 
>> upgrade/life cycle?
> 
> Well, depends on what you mean by 'reasonable'... ;) 

At least a couple of years.

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