[PLUG] Linux distro recommendation as a replacement for SuSE

[drew wymore]

I echo Rich on Slackware but thats just a guttural response. It boils down
to a couple of things both of which you touched on.

A) Legality - I don't think any of us are lawyers? If you wanted to avoid
the lawsuits and IP issues associated with Linux there is also FreeBSD.

B) What are you going to use it for? From an ease of use standpoint I'd lean
towards Fedora or Ubuntu although I'm not partial to either since as
mentioned above I'm a slackware user :-) Or if you're really into getting
something that *should* be clean and a challenge you could always go linux
from scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) has been one of the things
I've wanted to get around to doing myself. Think incredibly compact
webserver.

Let us know what you decide!

Drew-

On 11/4/06, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Alex Daniloff wrote:
>
> > I'm going to use it mostly to deploy my applications and web based
> > services to my customers. That is why I'm trying to avoid any potential
> > claims and mitigations from M$-Novell hunchos against my business.
>
> Alex,
>
>    If you're going to be installing, maintaining, and using it then you
> might
> also consider Slackware. It's highly stable and works very well.
>
>    The FUD about Microsoft indemnifying Novell/SuSE users from patent
> lawsuits is an echo of SCO's attempt to extort licensing fees based on
> what
> they claimed to own with UNIX. Some companies were foolish enough to buy
> into the FUD, but SCO is being shot down (or has been emasulated) in every
> one of the lawsuits they initiated.
>
>    Novell and Oracle have no more love of OSS than does Microsoft. They're
> all trying to figure out how to keep milking their cash cows while their
> business models dry up and blow away like the over-hyped dot-coms did
> almost
> a decade ago.
>
>    Ya' think Microsoft is going to sue Munich, China, Brazil, and India
> for
> patent infringement?
>
>    Just keep your seatbelt fastened. There will be a lot of excitment in
> this
> continuing drama.
>
> Rich
>
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