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Thanks for the great responses guys. <br>
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I mentioned before that I'm searching for a replacement for my
beloved Ubuntu 10.04. <br>
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I've downloaded Fedora, Crunchbang, and Bodhi Linux based on the
recommendations of this group. I'll be trying them out shortly. If
anyone is interested, I'll post my results.<br>
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I run a small law practice and I run linux on 3 workstations and a
fileserver. I also am forced to run an XP machine for my
proprietary bankruptcy software and sadly for Adobe reader, which
allows me to fill in .pdf forms. I can't seem to find a Linux
equivalent.<br>
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Thanks again! <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/03/2013 09:01 AM, Jonathan
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<div>On Aug 3, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Richard Houser <<a
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">With RHEL, I run into lots
of snags and occasionally security vulnerabilities due to
outdates libraries (after accounting for back ports). It's
really more of a host for badly built commercial software
that misuses dynamic libraries, since Linux already has a
stable API since 1.0. Applications that require specific
libraries are expected to statically link or ship those
libraries. If you run modern code, stick to a distro built
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<div>I'm unfamiliar with these security vulnerabilities that
Richard speaks of, so I can't address them, other than the point
of paying for a RHEL subscription is that if you were to point
out a security vulnerability like he mentioned, it would be
fixed and you'd have a support team helping you with it. </div>
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<div>Sadly, not everything can be solved by statically linked
binaries, and there really isn't much of a "stable API" in a
rolling release distro. It's fine if all you care about is
packaged in the distro and your projects have very short
lifetimes, but if you have a user base that expects all their
workstations and computational nodes to have a stable target for
compilation, then you'll really want an enterprise distribution.
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