Josh Coffman wrote: >(isn't top posting bad form in the list? /don't care >that much.) > >This isn't the way I hoped the thread would go but oh >well. > >I actually did the 'install, try, and move on' >approach when I first started getting into linux just >a few months ago. Yes it was sometimes WAY too time >consuming, but I learned along the way. I did have a >bias though... I was looking more for a distro with >KDE, even though I tried a couple distros with GNOME. > >To each his own. ..and it often seems like each has >his own [distro]. > >...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@stilyagin.com http://www.stilyagin.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss