On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> My desktop machine is sick following a power cut over the week, and it
> looks as if it needs a reinstallation of the OS. This is RHEL 4.
> Our sysadmin tells me that RH don't support the workstation version any
> longer. If I were to change OS, which might be best strategically for
> testing the software?. The sysadmin has SuSE, I have an Ubuntu disc...
> It must have gnome, despite gnome trying to look like Windows, I have
> grown used to it.
It doesn't really matter I don't think. All the new distributions have
gcc4.1 (so you will need g95) and they all seem to dote on Gnome (Redhat's
KDE implementation is an embarrassment). The more the merrier really,
especially since we got a recent bug report from a kubuntu user which
turned out to be a dash incompatibility (don't know what the problem was
but I've installed dash).
The JAC official policy is:
- CentOS5 aka Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (when it comes out) for desktops
- Fedora Core for laptops (FC6 is current).
See http://www.distrowatch.com
If you want to be really "out there" you could go for a BSD distro :-)
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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