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[Jeffrey Fox]

OK, I also will join in, though with great regret.

First I want to point out I am NOT a hard core Linux fanatic, I use 
Linux for computational biology research. I run it on a 30 node G4 
cluster as well as a small 4 node(8 cpu)  G5 cluster
(yes, with 64 bit kernel!).  I DO NOT run the latest and greatest 
distro, but use YDL 3.0 and 3.01.  For my work it is ROCK solid, easy 
to maintain and, the most important for me, when I download open source 
software (MPICH, Petsc, gmsh, etc) I configure, I make and it runs.

Face it, the latest and greatest distro will always have bugs and 
problems, even expensive
closed source software has this problem.  If anyone expects perfection 
out of the latest distro
they are guaranteed to be disappointed, it doesn't mater if God himself 
puts it together. (  I have used Red Hat and Suse Linux as well as 
FreeBSD on  Pentium 4 machines with tremendous headaches!)

Terasoft has done a great service for the scientific community and they 
continue to expand and provide excellent tools for us. This is just a 
fact. The flame war about this distro or that distro is silly, helps no 
one, and greatly detracts from the usefulness of this list. It may very 
well be true that one distro provides some aspect of some software that 
some person thinks is important, GREAT! use it. That in no way detracts 
from the strengths of YDL and the accomplishments of Terrasoft.

Dr. Jeffrey S Fox
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Center for Neuroscience
395 UCB
University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0395
jfox at euclid.colorado.edu

On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Owen Stampflee wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 09:13, Ryan Nix wrote:
>> "we're the ones with the relationship to get everyone's favorite
>> hardware running?"
>>
>> Maybe in the past, but not now.  YDL is now the most buggy PPC distro.
>
> HAH. Who was the first distro with G5 support? with 64-bit G5 support?
> With PowerMac7,3 support? With XServe G5 support? Who will be the first
> to support PowerMac9,1s?
>
> Who is the only distro that currently supports DualHead on Radeon
> 9600s... and we've had support for them for over a year!
>
> There is a bunch of stuff behind the scenes that you guys never see...
>
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