RE: [SLUG] Distributions

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

To give you a slightly different perspective ....

To me the distribution versions are important as I do a lot of work with
commercial s/w on Linux. Right from Oracle, DB2 to WebSphere and MQ. Most of
these s/w come out on RedHat first.
At a strech I can make it work on other distributions, yes, but then I am
lazy and I just use whatever is recommended.

But then, I am also curious and like to live life on the bleeding edge.
Thus, I opt for Mandrake (7.1). Mandrake is the closest clone of RH, and so
compatibility is there.
But, IMHO, Mandrake is the most polished, well put-together distribution in
the marketplace. It has the quality that even some commercial s/w can only
dream off and the latest version, 7.1 has got to be seen, just to work out
how well an open source team have done their work.
Plus, they bundle in all of the latest stuff .....


-- Aravind

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au
> [mailto:owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au]On Behalf Of Tom Massey
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 23:38
> To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Distributions
>
>
> Jon Biddell wrote:
> >
> > Not wanting to start another Religious War (which this probably
> will), but
> > who is using which distro for what ?  What is "the best", if this can be
> > quantified ?
>
> I don't know about 'best', but if you want lots of up to the minute
> stuff I don't think you can beat Mandrake - first distro to have Reiser
> FS support, XFree 4, always got the latest kernel at release, basically
> always seems to have the latest possible versions of everything. You
> could of course argue that this was a disadvantage - maybe less stable,
> less secure etc - but actually they seem to do a remarkable job of both
> staying up to date and maintaining stability. And don't take too much
> notice of the way they present themselves as 'newbie friendly' (and so
> perhaps beneath the notice of a 'power user') - certainly they are easy
> to use, but don't think that they do this at a cost of user power etc.
> Very easy to install and get started with (pretty much stick the CD in
> stuff), but all the power is still there if you want it. If you're
> considering trying RH 6.2, you might like to try Mandrake 7.1 as well -
> it'd actually probably be interesting to do a comparison between the
> two, what with Mandrake's origins as a Red Hat derivative (not any more
> an accurate description). You could see where Mandrake triumphs over Red
> Hat. :-)
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