the debian and its offspring ubuntu i think for me is the long standing winner.
the package tree is very good, and the upgrades and releases are very
stable. and my favorite, great documentation from both canonical and
the user community. the only downside i have is that rpm is more
prevalent than deb for distributed packages, but i also am not to
worried about rolling things from source.
Im useing ubuntu 8.10 x64 to run my workstation and its been very
handy and cooperative.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Mark Phillips
<
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> MIke,
>
> I have been using Debian "testing" for more years than I care to mention on
> multiple laptops and desktop computers with very few problems. Upgrades
> rarely break, and when they do the output from apt-get is usually enough to
> fix the problem - usually a dependency, and if I install a couple of the
> dependant modules by hand everything works. Debian stable is also good, but
> not as current as testing.
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It
>> seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a
>> video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading the latest SUSE 11.1 ISO
>> and do an update, but it still seems to get of the way through boot,
>> then die about the time it should be starting the Xwindow system.
>>
>> Looking other posts on this forum, I see few others mention SuSe as
>> there distro, and many talk about switching from one to another. How
>> do you decide when it is time to switch distros, and more importantly,
>> how do you decide which distro to switch to?
>>
>> I have been stuck running my Windoze partition on my main computer,
>> and my new (used) laptop running Windoze for some time now. Even with
>> Knoppix I can not get my Open Office files to work, so I would like to
>> find some way to get back in the running.. I have looked through the
>> latest boot log, and it shows no obvious sign of problems. I have not
>> yet checked for an X11 boot log to see if problems are creeping up
>> there, but I am also less clear where such a log would be.
>>
>> Mike (using Linux for several years now, but still just beginning)
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