Re: [SLUG] Distributions

[Jon Biddell <jon@nospam.fl.net.au>]

>If you don't want to start a religious war, then don't ask what is the
>best {:-). I might be thinking if Linuxone can do it, then WOA can
>bring out a distro and of course it will be the best {:-).

Point taken.... The question came up at work today, when trying to convince 
PHB to let me put a Linux demo box up...

>I use RH because it was the distro that just rolled on first time when
>I was starting out (Yadd & Slack died), so I've kept on using it. I
>don't like the way RH is big and acting MS like, so I'm interested in
>trying various other distros.

My exact complaint against RH - Macmillan I don't like because it doesn't 
put anything back into the open source community. Mandrake is RH'ish with 
extras (not bad, I only have 6.0).

>I'm firstly looking at a distro that is easy for newbies to install as
>I don't want to recommend Linux to friends and spend all my time
>telling them how to do it. so this has tended to colour my views.

Another excellent point - that's where, IMHO, SuSE isn't too bad, as is 
EasyLinux.

>Suse seems interesting and I've done one install (6.0 - No X) and
>found YAST hard to understand. The box kept on dying with core dump
>every two weeks, but it was minimal hardware and could have been the
>app that was running on it. A few people seem to like it from 6.2 and
>onwards.

Not had this experience (yet !!), and 6.3 has bee up and running for well 
over 100 days..

> > How the heck do you keep up with the distributions ?
>
>You choose one, you install it and just use it until you come across a
>problem, which you then fix by upgrading.
>
>If it is work, then subscribe to the relevant lists for that distro.
>
>If it is home and it aint broke, then don't fix it - get on with using
>it.

:-)

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