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- <li><em>date</em>: Wed Jun 22 23:46:11 2005</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: aaron at pd.org (aaron)</li>
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I've forwarded your notes and suggestions to my friend, Mark.
The number of choices in Linux distros has become really overwhelming,
but I still wish I could take a year to just explore and compare them all...
peace
aaron
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 18:03, aaron wrote:
> I have a friend (and former business partner) who now works as a programmer
> for Scientific Atlanta. Sour grapes from BSD hackers not withstanding, it
> seems that S.A. is now migrating to Linux as the OS for all of their
embedded
> set top cable boxes and supporting media server products. [Yeah!]
>
> So my friend called today looking for a Linux distro recommendation for his
> personal and home systems. His development team now uses a lot of Red Hat
> for test systems, servers and developer desktops, so I suggested Fedora
Core,
> as one would think that should be the most similar and "compatible" with the
> commercial Red Hat distro offerings.
>
> Did I put him on the right track? Are there distros that will integrate with
> Red Hat as well or better?
>
> Will pass on any wisdom shared...
>
> peace
> aaron
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