Philip, The only "too bad" in this was that it's disruptive and annoying to redeploy on a variety of machines. I'm lazy. It forces me to make decisions which will either a) cost me more money or 2) leave me in a situation of trying to make sure that commercial products that I run on linux will work on the target distro. I don't have RH horror stories, nor do I know, in particular of horror stories from the other distros. Fortunately, there's a rather high similarity, AFAICT, to the capabilities of the distributions. I see lots of Debian around as well as RH. We have little experience with SUSE. Matt On Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003, at 11:34 US/Eastern, Philip MacMenamin wrote: > Just out of interest why 'too bad'? > > Do you mean this with regard to having to use those vendors *in > particular*? > I am a RH user, and am not really that familiar with SuSe or Debian, > but they > always seemed pretty reasonable options to me... (?) (as did > Gentoo...) I'd > be curious to hear about horror stories you have had with those guys. > Because > honestly, I have found RH to be a bit flakey sometimes, although pretty > rarely admitidly. > > Or did you mean 'too bad' with regard to the fact that RH has decided > to do > this in general? > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:13 am, you wrote: >> For many of us, we may precisely be driven towards SUSE and Debian. >> too bad. > > Philip > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > ======================================================== Matthew Temple Tel: 617/632-2597 Director, Research Computing Fax: 617/632-4012 Dana-Farber Cancer Inst mht@research.dfci.harvard.edu 44 Binney Street, M L105 http://research.dfci.harvard.edu Boston, MA 02115 Choice is the Choice!