which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?

[Brent Harding]

Speakfreely is good. I do go on on occation. I learn quite a bit from the
stuff on main menu about zipspeak. How can rh 5.2 work with speech with the
2.0 series kernels? The reason I might go redhat in the future is because
companies I might consider working for use it, and a guy who's part owner
lives a short distance from me, thus the possible future opportunities that
may come up. I found out by the redhat telnet login prompt, as I was
curious which version they run, so I telnetted, listened to the login
prompt, and disconnected, and found it said it was redhat 5.2 with kernel
2.0.36. I don't know why he chose to put that version on the machines they
run, but upgrading may be difficult, as the machines would have to be taken
down, so it'd probably have to be done fairly late at night. How can it
really be possible to have more than 1 root user? I don't even know how to
add more root users to a system, that's where I'm not familiar with. I know
sudo is often used, but he claims that at such a time as I'd be given
access, I'd be able to edit system files, and whatever else root can do,
and my friend could too, with a different user and password.
Is redhat server really that capable of that versus the redhat bought from
cheapbytes or whatever?
At 04:08 PM 10/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>This type of opinion is personal, and I think that it is uncalled for on the
>list.  Everyone has their favorate.  What works for some, is not always what
>works for others.
>
>Prior to getting in to the linux environment, I didn't know which way to go.
>I finally took the plunge, and started off with a version of RedHat.  It was
>5.2 I think.  Since then I have install RH6.2 and RH7.  In addition to the
>RH installs, I have also installed Debian.  I have noticed little difference
>in the performance of the machine regardless of the distribution.  What I
>have noticed, is that each distribution has some nice features that I wish
>the other had.  How, I think that the best distribution, would be the one,
>that took all of the features of all distributions, merged them into one
>great big distribution, and just for fun called it Jack of all trades.
>
>Anyways, my recommendation to Brent, would be to take the distribution that
>he is comfortable with, and go for it.  If he is not sure which way to go,
>drop in on to the reflector, and talk to everyone.  The folks on the
>reflector have Debian, Slackware, RedHat, and I don't know what else
>successfully running.
>
>Oh yeah, the speakup reflector is located at:
>lwl.braille.uwo.ca:4074
>and you need speak freely to access it.
>if you don't have speak freely, get it at:
>www.speakfreely.com
>it has both a linux and windows version.
>
>Steve, VE6AYT
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Wood
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:49 AM
>> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?
>>
>>
>> Brent,
>>
>> Lets make this easy for you:
>> Debian = great
>> RedHat 6.2 = good
>> RedHat 7 = very bad and don't come crying if you ignore this
>> sparc = we don't even want to hear from you
>>
>>
>> =======
>> Kirk Wood
>> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>>
>>
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