[Novalug] Choice of OS (was Re: Red Hat Network (RHN)...)

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Wed May 12 15:40:26 EDT 2010


I am reminded of various movies where the wife is dying, and she starts 
interviewing women and setting them up with her husband because she 
wants him to remarry and be happy.

I think you should start doing that for your wife, picking her next 
husband based in part on which distro he will support for her.

Maybe you'll even get a Made for TV Movie out of it.

JIM

P.S. But seriously, how can you even predict what will happen 10 or 20 
years from now. She might even get hit by a bus tomorrow. But why not 
start now? Run some other distros...see what she likes.

I like Mint...it's Very Easy to install and looks nice. Overall, I would 
say that Debian based systems have a better chance at being continually 
upgradable.

Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Peter Larsen wrote:
> 
>  	[....]
>> What companies like Redhat sell isn't the software as I stated, 
>> but the services.
> 
>> [....] As the cloud comes closer to being adopted, this is 
>> going to change even more and IT will be a simple service a 
>> company buys - like plugging in a TV. No need to hire a 
>> technician to install/run anything. The IT experts will provide 
>> the services as hired consultants and as 
>> management/setup/configuration of the cloud to satisfy the need 
>> of the clients. If this sounds a lot like IBM in the 60s and 
>> 70s you're quite right. We're returning to the mainframe 
>> mentality. The PC era is about as over as it can be - it was 
>> fun while it lasted though. [....]
> 
>  	This reminds me of a topic -- marginal and tangential to 
> the present one at best -- which I've been meaning to ask about 
> somewhere.
> 
>  	Insofar as my wife has any tech support whatever, it's 
> me. I run Fedora, adopting new releases a week or two after they 
> appear, because that puts most of my innumerable questions and 
> problems into places that lots of Alpha Plus Technoids watch; and 
> it's easiest for me to keep her machine doing what she wants if 
> her OS is also the one I know best.
> 
>  	She does a little email, a little web browsing, and 
> quite a bit of writing. That means two or three browsers 
> (Firefox, Opera and Konqueror -- under Gnome, not KDE); Alpine 
> (which both of us have been using lo these twenty years gone); 
> and OpenOffice. She has none of my interest in OSs nor the Net 
> per se, but wants to use her machine the way both of us use our 
> vehicles.
> 
>  	It becomes increasingly apparent that she'll most 
> likely outlive me by a good many years. What should she run after 
> my time? Would RHEL make any sense for such a user??
> 
>  	CentOS has long seemed to me the canonical choice, 
> probably with EPEL enabled, but seldom used much -- and the 
> release of 6.0 or soon after the canonical time. Is that 
> reasonable? Should I be looking harder at Mint, for instance? 
> (Ubuntu is, to me personally, analogous to KDE: somehow I just 
> never get comfortable with either.)
> 
> 
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