new hotness?

[Charles Jones]

Agreed.  For servers I usually do CentOS. For Workstations I use Fedora 
or Ubuntu.  If you want something to play with there are 
security-specific distros like BackTrack, etc.

-Charles

Bob Elzer wrote:
> You're not going to get a single same answer on this. LOL
>
> My favorites are Centos, and Ubuntu.
>
> For server I'm using Centos, 5.3 is the current or will be very soon.
> Stability is the main reason.
> It is essentially a rebranding of RedHat Enterprise, but free. It doesn't
> have a new version every six months thus the stability, but bugs and
> critical problems are fixed fast. 
>
> For my laptop I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, I tried lots of distro's but this was
> the one, that really didn't give me any problems, everything installed and
> worked, especially my wireless connections, which was always the biggest
> problems on the other distro's.
>
> The other distro's may have worked out their bugs by now, but I don't need
> to fix what isn't broken.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:52 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: new hotness?
>
> I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and wondering what
> dis has something really groundbreaking that makes it worthwhile to look at.
>
> I guess part of me is tired of the flavor of the month distributions that
> are esentially something else with a new look and a slightly different
> package base or whatnot.
>
> for example Fedora Directory Server is very interesting to me, because
> whether we like it or not this will be a windows heavy world for some time.
> but what else is there that i cna really sink my teeth into. or even whats
> worth doing that with?
>
> My personal list of Distributions i have spent some real quality time with
>
> Ubuntu/Debian
> Fedora/Red Hat new and old/Centos
> Suse/Opensuse
> Gentoo
>
> and a few other that more or less were a repackage of one of the above
>
> --
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.