12 Jan
2001
12 Jan
'01
12:51 p.m.
The beauty of *nix right now is that its a bit of a
chore to install, no
formal support, etc. and that leaves the door open for consultants et al to
make money selling, installing, and supporting it. Not a bad business model
really.
A couple of plugs on easy installing Linux.
Mandrake
Caldera EDesktop 2.4
Corel v2
and of course the plug for FreeBSD 4.2.
If you want a commercially supported version all of the above and
Red Hat do sell support directly.
Solaris is available for x86 for about $100 (support extra) and works ok
-- but the hardware supported is MINIMAL.
I just put Mandrake up here after struggling with WinNT for two days.
Works fine.
They've even got a MandrakeUpdate utility like the Microsoft Windows
Update utility.
I still prefer FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD for server use.
--Bill
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