Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 16:19:31 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 18:29:19, Peter Skinner wrote: >On March 05, 2005 at 11:03:10, Bryan Hofmann wrote: > >>If you would really like the RedHat distro, here is a link to a clone of for >>RedHat Enterprise releases. They take the freely avaiable rpms from RedHat and >>create a distro package. >>http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=56 >> >>Fedora = This is the beta/test releases that eventually form RedHat releases >>Mandrake = Bleeding edge of software packages >> >> >>Bryan > >Would you say then that Mandrake is the best linux distro due to the software >packaging? > >Or just the best one based on rpm packaging? > >Peter >P.S- I currently use Gentoo(stage 3 install) and Windows XP in dual boot. I would not say Mandrake is the best, what I meant by the statement above is that they use the bleeding edge of available software or the latest and greatest which leads to a flood of patches after the release. I have used many different distro's starting with SLS 0.99 (yes way back back before kernel version 1.0) and rolling my own. Picking a distro to use is more of a question of what are you going to use it for and how much you enjoy upgrading the distro. Do I use Mandrake? Yes, in some instances due to need to have the latest GCC tools or C libs; other instances I have used CENTOS, Debian, RedHat ES, and SuSe which I do not care much for.
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