From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Egan Orion"  wrote in message
news:3e852d99$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> IBM and HP are tight with Red Hat, and IBM also supports SuSE.
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> Debian has a slow update cycle -- good, bad, or neutral?
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> Debian is also very Euro, independent, and idealogical.
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> Mandrake is (was?) Red Hat based, but is more innovative.
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> Mandrake needs more capital to get on solid ground.
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> Decisions, decisions...
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> Sun could do worse than invest in Mandrake (and Opterons can hammer HP).
>

I reckon Mandrake. Like I say if they go for RH or suse then they will be
helping comps who are aimng at solaris/the enterprise as a stated aim.
Mandrake works well as a server & as a desktop & is more modest in
it's enterprise ambitions.

Adam

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