Re: Redhat 6.1

[Charles E Taylor IV <charlet hubcap clemson edu>]

On 05-Oct-99 Dan Frasnelli wrote:

[snip RH stuff]

>       Do you guys feel a modern Alpha-dedicated distribution (hailing
> back to the days of Blade) is best, or whether integrating Alpha ports
> into existing distros (SuSE, Debian, etc.) would be better in the long
> run?    

Speaking as someone who runs Linux on more than one architecture, I like
running the "same" distribution on each architecture.  I can run Redhat on my
Intel, Alpha, or Sparc and be presented with mostly the same software
(excluding things like Netscape on the Alpha), the same interface and
configuration methods, etc.

Ironically (given what was in the previous post about Redhat not being very
gung-ho on the Alpha port), it was the Alpha port of Redhat that got me to
switch my Intel boxes from Slackware.  So if they'd not put out an Alpha port,
I probably would have never bought any RH in the first place.

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