I third... this is the first linux distribution I've
seen where help is available like an enterprise distro
(but much more friendly) and also the distro is clean,
complete, functional and up2date...

It's making my transition to linux make a lot more
sense.

Kudos!

--Vaibhav
--- "Paul A. Rombouts" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Miles O'Neal wrote:
> > I just wanted to say thanks to Troy,
> > Connie and anyone else helping maintain
> > the SL project.  It's been a real life
> > saver, and y'all are doing a great job.
> 
> I want to express my appreciation as well. I should
> have done it a month 
> ago, but better late than never.
> 
> I had been using aging Red Hat installations for a
> long time. Upgrading 
> to Red Hat Enterprise was much too expensive for me.
> But I couldn't make 
> up my mind which distribution I should use as a
> replacement.
> 
> I tried Fedora for a while. While it certainly is a
> very interesting 
> distribution if you like to experiment with what is
> new in Linux land, 
> it is much too volatile to put on the majority of my
> machines.
> 
> The turning point came for me when by chance I
> glimpsed a reference on 
> Linux Today to an article reviewing Scientific
> Linux. I tried it out as 
> soon as I had the opportunity. I was very pleasantly
> surprised. For a 
> former Red Hat user, what is there not to like?
> 
> Apart from the things mentioned previously by
> others, there are two 
> things that I like in particular about Scientific
> Linux.
> 
> The first is the ability to make 'sites'. I wanted
> to install SL 304 on 
> an old Pentium PC, and to my chagrin I discovered
> the i586 processor 
> wasn't supported. By comparing with other
> distributions I came to the 
> conclusion that all that was needed to provide i586
> support was adding a 
> few missing packages. So I added these packages to
> my nfs install tree. 
> It turned out that some install files need be
> updated as well. This 
> could be done with the help of some nifty scripts I
> found in the 
> SL/build/scripts/ directory. My point is that
> although installing 
> Scientific Linux on an unsupported machine wasn't
> easy, thanks to the 
> flexibility provided by the 'sites' feature it
> wasn't unduly difficult.
> 
> The second thing that I like especially about
> Scientific Linux is those 
> nifty SL_*.rpm packages you can use to perform some
> very useful tweaks 
> to your system. Although these changes can also be
> made by editing 
> configuration files by hand, the rpms are so much
> more user friendly.
> May I make a request for a package that allows the
> PC speaker to beep 
> again on SL 40?
> 
> -- 
> Paul Rombouts
> 



		
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