(apologies to jmh for sending this twice, forgot to send it to the list)

> I'd like to know how others are dealing with this.  Is anybody using
> Ubuntu clients with SL servers for instance?  Any other words of wisdom
> on this topic?

Personally, I don't think its scientific applications in general that
are lacking, but Firefox 2.0, for example.  I don't mind installing
the odd application in /usr/local/bin, but I don't want to have to
install most of the things I use that way.

I've just started up a lab that is using Linux workstations and
servers, and I felt it was a lot easier to just install Fedora on the
workstations.  Lots of flexibility (and lots of rope to hang yourself
with.)

But, for our servers, I need them to be compatible with Redhat and
very stable.  In general, there aren't users using them directly.  SL
seems like the way to go.

I've used Ubuntu, and I felt like it got a bit messy.  There are so
many things available, but a lot of them didn't work very well.