[Info-vax] vtAlpha and marketing bullshit

[ChrisQ]

On 12/18/11 17:17, Paul Sture wrote:

>>
>> If I had to pick a Linux, for most of the last decade or so and for most
>> of the likely applications (desktop, server, realtime) it would have
>> been SuSe. Other Linuxes are available.
>>
>
> Agreed, though with the latest release of openSUSE (12.1) the first few
> desktop apps I tried either didn't work or had greatly reduced
> functionality.  Is .1 the new .0 ?
>

Haven't tried 12.1, but have been evaluating various linuxen this year and
suse (11.3) does seem to be the most sorted in terms of functionality, 
robustness
and things like library and application revision level. For example, it 
was the
only one that would build a gnu cross toolchain (gcc-4.6.1 etc) almost 
out of the
box with few missing components. Last used it extensively around 6.2 vintage
and even then, it seemed pretty bulletproof.

Debian is pretty good as well, though not quite so up to date as Suse. 
Currently
evaluating Debian squeeze on sun v240 andso far, all ok.

Alpha Linux development seems to be at an end. Shame, as there are still 
many
machines out there that could benefit from having a modern, properly sorted
os to run on them. Yes, I know we have vms, but it's expensive and hard 
work in
terms of getting open source software running on it...

Regards,

Chris