My vote on this issue is to find the person you're going to go to every 5
minutes asking for help, and find out what they use. You're far more
likly to get helpful answers that way, and then once you know your way
around a linux box, go try out the other distros and see what the
differences are.
--Nick
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, George Toft wrote:
> At the risk of Holy Distro Jihad Round X, and with the following
> caveat, I make my opinion known.
>
> Caveat: My latest test data was SuSE 6.4, Mandrake 7.0, Red Hat 6.2
> all on the same hardware.
>
> SuSE Makes the best workstation because so much stuff is included
> and configured for you by default. For example, using the above
> distros, Netscape is already set up for sound and movies to work
> for you. The ATA66 drivers are already compiled into the Kernel.
> Enlightenment looks 10X better under SuSE than Mandrake.
>
> Sure, you can add this stuff, and tweak it, but you have to know
> what you are doing first. SuSE does it for you so you can get
> to work, hence the name _work_station.
>
> My opinion of SuSE is radically different as a server, but is
> beyond the scope of this message.
>
> My two cents. Not meant to start the distro war. Your mileage may
> vary.
>
> George
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >
> > Which of the various versions of Linux is preferred for a workstation type
> > machine? Red Hat? Mandrake? SuSE? Some other?
> >
> > Tom Achtenberg
> >
> > Visit my Home Page www.Achtenberg.com
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