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Novell bought them, and IBM also fully supports them on their power
architecture.  It's one of only two istros that will run in an LPAR on
an RS/6000 p-series.

Too much support from heavy hitters in the IT game.

--Jerald


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 07:33 -0600, Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay Finch wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >> That's a very good point, Jonathan!  My only concern is that Redhat
> > >>  doesn't offer support for RH9 any longer, and there's a
> > >> possibility that the support through Fedoralegacy.org will
> > >> eventually be discontinued.  I don't want to be the situation I was
> > >> (until last November) where I have an outdated Distro (RH 6.2) with
> > >> no easy update path.  (I purged and went to RH9 because the server
> > >> got compromised.)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Wondering .... If that is the main concern, then perhaps Suse and
> > > Slackware could also possibly present problems in the future ?? 
> > > Debian may be the best bet.
> > 
> > I've upgraded SuSE from 6.0 to 9.2, I don't think that's going to be a 
> > problem.  I don't think you'll have a problem with Slack updates either.
> 
> Hmm. My concern was more along the lines of the possibility of free 
> upgrade support for Suse/Slackware being eventually discontinued at some 
> point in the future. I perceive the likelihood of that happening with 
> Debian, as being somewhat lower.
> 


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