Choosing an Enterprise Linux Distro

Steve Hutton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At work they have ported some server apps to Linux,
and they want to purchase an Entrprise Linux distro
and support.  Apparently we have spoken with IBM as
a potential reseller.

Choices right now are between
Red Hat AS/ES
Suse
United Linux (hmm, this includes Suse and who's left, TurboLinux?)

It's been a while since I tried Suse or Red Hat (happily
using Gentoo for the last year or so), so I really just
know that I much prefer the Suse desktop.

As a server os, I don't really know their respective
strengths and weaknesses.  It would be nice if the
system we choose supports gcc 3.x, but I would guess
all distros do by now?  Oh yeah, we will be running Oracle 9i
(possibly DB2 later).

Browsing their repective sites looking for a list of installed
packages, I got lost in a sea of pdf whitepapers.  I guess that's
how you market to this audience...

So, any reccomendations?

Steve


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