<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you GNU!? <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Accessys@smart.net">Accessys@smart.net</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="midPine.LNX.4.58.0701031008090.25938@smart.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, David Trask wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">"Support list for open source software in schools." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com"><k12osn@redhat.com></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">SUSE! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">UBUNTU! (figured since we were shouting out distros, I'd add one) ;-) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Wasn't shouting "SUSE" is written in all caps, complain to Novell and he was asking about support, SUSE has commercial support if you wish and they claim several years Ubuntu I've found seems to have very little support, or at least my experience with it. </pre> </blockquote> Unfortunately, Novell's patent deal with Microsoft makes that highly dangerous now. I used to recommend SuSE Linux, even on this list, as an LTSP platform. Now I have to avoid SuSE like the plague. Sad, but true. I use Kubuntu Dapper Drake on my primary desktop at work, as does my troop. Two others in my group use Ubuntu; one uses Dapper, and the other Edgy. It is a good distro, and I understand that Canonical offers support similar to that of Red Hat and Novell. Furthermore, if you run Ubuntu Dapper on Sun gear, as I do, Sun Microsystems itself apparently plays in the Ubuntu support space now. --TP </body> </html>