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Tony Langdon <tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
: It's 14 May 98  13:28,
: We'll return to Cooper@Mindless.com and All's
: discussion of Caldera Vs RH5

:  Co> If you're a newbie, RedHat will be *MUCH* easier to install, but I
:  Co> find the more direct working of Slackware preferable. Just a matter of
:  Co> taste I guess. Can't say what Caldera's like as I've never tried that
:  Co> flavor...

: I prefer Red Hat myself, even if only for the reason I don't have the
: time to maintain and document a Slackware style system.  Tools like RPM
: and the X based control panel make administration more time efficient.

While I find that the control-panel gets in my way, and I usually
prefer to build apps from source.  But then I do most of my UNIX-ish
work remotely, and can find my way around vi.  :-)

:  > Here are some other things I have to consider:
:  > * This machine will be in a netware environment and caldera's dist comes
:  > with proprietery clients tools for this.

:  Co> Chances are that various other tools from RedHat or whatever can do
:  Co> whatever those do... on all platforms I might add...

: Red Hat will integrate well with Netware.  It comes with a Netware
: server and (I think) the ncpfs tools to mount Netware volumes.  I've had
: success with the mars-nwe server supplied with Red Hat.

Caldera have had a NetWare requester from day one.  I've no idea how
well it works, as I don't do NetWare.  Beyond that, I can't really
comment on Caldera.  I haven't used it since CND 1.0.

:  > * I'll be having PC's and Macs access this machine.

:  Co> They'll access using TCP which is (should be) OS-independant.

: And if you need filesystem access, Red Hat comes with Samba (for serving
: to Windows clients), Appletalk (in the kernel) and netatalk (for sharing
: to Macs), as well as the previously mentioned mars-nwe for providing
: Netware services.

As do pretty much all Linux distritutions (not to mention my personal
preference, FreeBSD).  There really isn't a lot of ground to pick
between the various distributions these days.  It really just comes down
to "do you want GUI admin tools?", and if so go with RedHat, otherwise
go with Debian or Slackware (or one of the open BSDs)

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