Which one?

[Nick Estes]

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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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