questions about distributions

[Jerry A Clabaugh]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> 
> howdy folks,
> 
> I'm assembling a document on various distributions of linux and need some of
> your help.  Any and all comments are welcome...  My focus is to outline
> which distributions I want to compare in depth at in the next phase of my
> research.  My current scope has been reduced to the following.
> 
> Debian / SuSE / Caldera / Corel / RedHat
> 
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Have SMP enabled kernels?  Or will I be required to do a kernel build?

Every distribution I've ever used, I had to compile the kernel to run
on 2 processors.

> If you had to describe each distribution in 20 words what would you say?
> What is the focus, how does it differ from others?
> If you had to choose just one as a server platform on i86 architecture, what 
> would you pick?
> 
> I know many of the answers, but I'm soliciting for public opinion.
> Thanks...
> 
> 
> 
> - Christoph
> 
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