Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 16:46:54 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 19:19:31, Bryan Hofmann wrote: >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. I used to love Red Hat. I found it ran the best on my system and patching was very easy. Now that they dropped the "user" platform version in leui of the Fedora project I had to go elsewhere. If I am not mistaken the Red Hat ES is the Enterprise Server release. This is something I wouldn't use, as I normally don't run servers at all, and if I do I would use something like ProFTPd. I like Gentoo because it is fast. I don't like it because of how much work it requires to maintain, and driver upgrades can be a royal pain in the wahooo... I only spend about 15% of my computing time in Linux, but I still search for that one distro that will satisfy me. If I found one that absolutely blew me away, I would consider dumping windows all together. Mandrake is one that I did like, but it was _extremely_ bloated. It was like using Windows, only with a different UI. LOL. Peter
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