too many choices (distros)

[Josh Coffman]

--- Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:

> >...My Short lists...
> >
> >Beginner desktop:
> >1 SimplyMepis
> >2 Ubuntu (based on popularity and articles)
> >
> >Intermediate Desktop:
> >1 SimplyMepis (simple and installs in 15-20
> minutes)
> >2 Fedora Core
> >3 Mandriva
> >
> >Techie's Toy desktop(beyond my skill):
> >1 Gentoo
> >2 Slackware
> >3 Source-Based distros
> >
> >Corporate desktop
> >1 Suse
> >2 Mandriva or Mepis Corp Edition
> >3 Fedora Core/RH
> >
> >Personal server:
> >1 Fedora Core (its what I know best)
> >2 Debian 
> >
> >Corp/Commercial server:
> >1 Red Hat (commercial support, know lots of places
> use
> >it)
> >2 Debian 
> >
> >-j
> >
> >  
> >
> Josh!
> 
> Okay, you've been at this a few months and you've
> been more informative 
> than DistroWatch. Nice. :)
> 
> -- 
> Darrin Chandler
> dwchandler at stilyagin.com
> http://www.stilyagin.com/

Thanks. Glad I could actually offer something useful.
Keep in mind though that I am new to linux and my
original trials were on an HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop.
Different hardware will get different results. I'll
also mention for a laptop, these seem like good
options:

1 SimplyMepis (great hardware support in my case)
2 Ubuntu (rumors of good hardware support, but not my
broadcom wifi)
3 Fedora (takes work though)
4 Mandriva (lots of stuff works, but not everything)





		
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