tao Linux

[Stephen Swaney]

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> Behalf Of Stephe Campbell
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: tao Linux
>
> Michele,
>
> Could you possibly elaborate on why you went to something other than a RH
> OS. This part really is the gut of the situation.
>
> Most of my servers are RH 7.3, which seems really stable. If I am to trust
> our future to the Open Source community, why shouldn't I trust them to
> keep
> RH 7.3, or any other RH version, up to date and safe? I do realize that
> old
> is not always best, but can you truthfully use this example to justify
> things like RH 8.0 versus RH 7.3?

1. Well the performance of RH 3.0 definitely beats 7.x
2. It's supported for security upgrades/updates :) either by up2date (RH) or
   yum
3. RH 3.0 is about 4.5 years from end-of life for support

> BTW, WhiteBox, as I recall, had some issues with their installation
> package

Not really even the pre-final-release worked fine for us.

> (was there even an X interface?)

Absolutely there was was/is X-interface

> How would you rate the installation
> process? A friend of mine at one of the US government laboratories here
> has
> highly recommended WB, but they rolled their own installation scripts for
> convenience., tailoring it more to their needs. They have more hands there
> than we do here, though.

What your friend was probably referring to is an automated install. We've
created a CD that we pop into a box and simply boot the system, have a
coffee and come back to an installed system ready to rumble.

>
> Thank you very much for your time and thoughts.

Glad to help and if you need more pointers on automated install please drop
me a line off list.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.



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