From: /m 

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:31:24 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:20:57 +0100, Adam
><""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:
>
>>It's this which will sell linux faster than anything. It just has to be
>>good enough.
>
>   It has become clear that for certain critical processes, that I need to
>add Linux to my bag.   Foisting off WGA crap onto users has become more
>important to Microsoft than anything else, including system stability.
>
>   What's everyone's favorite distribution?  Has Ubuntu lived up to its
>promises?

Depends upon what your needs are.

For my low-use servers, I tended towards Red Hat and SuSe.  For desktop I
tended towards SuSe (until 10.1, which is a transition version, work in
progress, so to speak) and Ubuntu.  At work we use a Red Hat Enterprise
cluster running a three-node Oracle database.  Nice, reliable set-up.

I like Ubuntu because it doesn't try to load every available app under the
sun, and the apps they choose are good.

I'm waitin for SuSe 11.x to see if they recover from the stumble.

There are plenty of Live CDs available, give 'em a try...

btw, wireless is lacking on all of the distributions.

 /m

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