Brion Vibber wrote:
I can't imagine any reason to replace the SuSE that ships with the machine.
O.k., I think this is the developed consensus. We'll stick with SuSE unless someone comes up with a real blockbuster.
1. SuSE is already on the machine (very important)
2. SuSE has CJK Latex (not so important, since this is the db machine, but still nice)
3. SuSE has a reputation for solid 64 bit work.
4. Anyhow, SuSE and Redhat are very very similar in most ways, i.e. RPM based, etc., so although Debian is preferred by some, there doesn't seem to be any reason to strongly prefer RedHat to SuSE *for our purpose*.
5. And Debian would be popular here, but it isn't ready for 64 bit yet.
--Jimbo