Problems with Debian's non-standard version of Firefox already exist.
The ColorZilla extension doesn't work with Debian's Firefox, but does with Mozilla's Firefox. The guy who wrote ColorZilla has extra support issues as a result. One advantage of Debian calling their non-standard version something else is that it'll help reduce the support issues for extension authors.
Can't comment about RedHat, but as far as I know SuSE supports the last 5 releases for security updates. i.e. although 9.1 is out, 8.0 is still supported. (See http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_23_libpng.html for an example from this month [aug '04].)
That's why we use SuSE... we can plan for a downtime upgrade for a given server around 2 to 3 years after initial setup to bring it up to "latest SusSE" and be confident that it'll be supported for another couple of years. (at which point we'll probably be thinking hardware replacement anyway!)
If you're on Windows, where there is no systemwide Window menu and (in pre-XP days) the task bar rapidly becomes crowded by multiple windows, then tabs make sense.
In post-XP days, it still does:) I'd love to use a Mac, but my choice of OS is based on the applications I want to run (which are only available for Windows atm).
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Problems with Debian's non-standard version of Firefox already exist. The ColorZilla extension doesn't work with Debian's Firefox, but does with Mozilla's Firefox. The guy who wrote ColorZilla has extra support issues as a result. One advantage of Debian calling their non-standard version something else is that it'll help reduce the support issues for extension authors.
The results pages all look the same too!
That's why we use SuSE... we can plan for a downtime upgrade for a given server around 2 to 3 years after initial setup to bring it up to "latest SusSE" and be confident that it'll be supported for another couple of years. (at which point we'll probably be thinking hardware replacement anyway!)
The UK TV license is how the BBC is funded.
In post-XP days, it still does :) I'd love to use a Mac, but my choice of OS is based on the applications I want to run (which are only available for Windows atm).