[H-GEN] Running SuSE 8.1- NOT!

[David Jericho]

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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:22:14PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Personally I prefer Debian.  Setting up & maintaing Samba using this
> distro is pretty trivial.  Similarly other distros like Redhat and
> Mandrake make it easy to install and use Samba.

Exactly. For example, to install Samba under Red Hat, assuming you've
got an RHN subscription (demo/basic/whatever) for that machine, you
can just issue a

# /usr/sbin/up2date samba

For Debian, 

# apt-get samba

or you could use one of the plethora of simpilified package selectors
that exist for both distributions.

<On installation problems>

> I have to say that it I had been seeing these sorts of problems from a
> distro I'd be staying away from it :)

I'd tend to agree. This is part of the reason I've stuck with Red Hat,
because I don't get these issues. I've found Debian to be similar in
many regards, not having these issues either. 

The other thing to keep in mind is that Linux and the BSD variants are
all like Windows in one respect, and that's hardware. Just because
it's Open Source doesn't mean it's going to work with every piece of
hardware you throw at it. Pick and choose only quality parts you know
will work, and you'll be in hardware heaven.

-- 
David Jericho


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