Re: [tlug] Next Distro

[Blomberg David <dblomber@example.com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:40, Shawn wrote:
> > SuSE is a rather good distribution and can recommend it to everyone.
> 
> Does SuSE have Opteron support?
Officially in the enterprise server yes (really the Linux kernel
supports Opteron so the whole answer for all Linux machines is yes.
> 
> I don't really need an answer and am just mentioning it to point out that 
> one advantage of Fedora is letting outside developers more easily make 
> contributions such as Opteron support.
> 
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5112820.html
Fedora has a "steering comitee" of the Red Hat project team and really
it is normal Red Hat rebranded without Red Hat having to support fixes
on a timely basis (I expect they still will but they are under no
obligation)
> 
> Of course the verdict is out on stability but we can hope that good stuff 
> will come out of the project that may end up in SuSE and elsewhere if it 
> is not stable enough under the whole Fedora distro scheme of things for 
> people to really want to use it there.
Expect Fedora to have stability of RH 8 and 9. but dont expect it to
reach a 7.3 status thats what the eneterprise line is for.
> 
> > the only way to start a running mediaplayer with SuSE9.0 will be a 
> > download of mplayer (not longer included) or a self-compile from a
> 
> I may be wrong, but I thought I saw something on the Fedora list about the 
> included version of XXMS not playing MP3 due to licensing issue and that a 
> different version was required.  As to whether that was really acurate or 
> not...not using Fedora so...
True true.
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