Re: Antwort: Re: Favored GNUstep Plattforms

[Martin Brecher]

On 2001-11-21 15:50:15 +0100 Helge Hess <helge.hess@skyrix.com> wrote:

> David.Ayers@brainag.com wrote:
> > Thats the second vote for SuSE already! (I think I see a pattern! )
> 
> Well, actually I think that most distributions are equally good (I don't
> know a bad one). But if you are starting to use a distribution you learn
> to know the specific tools and therefore becoming dependend on them ;-)
> We use SuSE for years now and therefore personnaly I find eg RedHat hard
> to use since it is missing the YaST install tool...

Well, support and updates count, too. SuSE has proven to be very stable. Their 
security team is very skilled; and they intensively test updates and patches 
before they release them. Documentation is also great and available in several 
languages.

- Martin



> 
> > As far a I know, oracle is also free for developers isn't it?
> 
> It is, but *only* for developers. As soon as you need to buy it, it's
> *very* expensive (but also very fast & stable).
> 
> > what is a GDL Adaptor (the GNUstep variant of an EOFAdaptor?)
> 
> Yes. There is GDL, GNUstep database library which is a rewrite of EOF
> 1.1.
> 
> > I just tought that the GNU "OpenSource" community generally supported each
> > others projects. Besides the fact, that if something doesn't work I like
> > the idea of at least beeing able to look in the source code to see why.
> > (That is what I am missing most using OPENSTEP!)
> 
> Well, you have objdump ;-) Anyway, if you want to have an OpenSource DB
> I suggest PostgreSQL over MySQL.
> 
> BTW: AFAIK neither MySQL nor PostgreSQL are "official" GNU projects.
> 
> Greetings
>   Helge
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