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Originally posted by epic which is better for enterprise user?
well even though suse comes with some great and alot of apps, they 're support is terrible. and redhat is the number 1 server distro out there, well, its the most common...
not sure though on redhat 7.2.. not familiar with anything new with it from 7.1....
Ellaborate on "enterprise user"? what are you going to be using the box for? any particular use of it....
Originally posted by Tasha v71 I just got red hat 7.1 cause i thought it was the latest, now there's a 7.2?? DAMMIT ALL TO HELL!!!!
lol - get used to it. no matter what software you use, there's going to be a new release as soon as you manage to get the old one installed. this is especially true in the open source world. releases of kernel updates or software patches can happen in a matter of days or even hours. upgrading software is a way of life for linux users. it's like coffee in the morning.
besides... the difference between red hat 7.1 and 7.2 is probably mostly negligable anyway. you can kick yourself when they release 8.0
yeah, so much of the software on a distro will be fairly out of date, in open source terms, by the time it's released, as the distro company will need to carefully decide and commit themselves to most of their packages fairly early, like redhat 7.2 has kernel 2.4.7 whilst 2.4.12 has just been released, and 2.4.13 is nearly finished...
if they didn't they be likely to get lots of problems in their releases, which wouldn't make them friends on the linux world...
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get used to it. no matter what software you use, there's going to be a new release as soon as you manage to get the old one installed. this is especially true in the open source world. releases of kernel updates or software patches can happen in a matter of days or even hours. upgrading software is a way of life for linux users. it's like coffee in the morning. 
