too many choices (distros)

[Josef Lowder]

Wow. Your question will surely open pandora's box 
and bring volumes of responses ;)) 

I'm in the dark ages, still using Mandrake 8.1 because 
it is rock solid, never breaks, and just keeps on trucking. 
With the work I'm doing, I just can't risk trying to switch 
systems. 

I do have Mepis and Xandros running on a newer box, 
but at this point, I only use it to offload photos from my 
digital camera.  I liked that fact that both installed so 
incredibly easily.  I'm looking forward to installing a 
newer version of Mandrake/Mandriva when it gets 
really stable.  Overall, I think it is the best distro. 
I do not like Suse, Fedora, Gentoo, or any of the 
versions that require endless updates.  I like stable. 

It will be good to see everyone's comments. 


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On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:37, you wrote:
>   This is not a complaint. I enjoy the choices; it's
> kinda like being single again... just kidding.
>
>   I've been using Fedora for a while now. It just
> leaves me a little unsatisfied in some areas
> sometimes.
>
>   So I have to admit I find myself being tempted by
> other distros though. OpenSuse should be released
> before too much longer; Mandriva 2006 is close to
> release. SimplyMepis 3.3.2 is also close to release. I
> keep wondering what I'm not seeing that makes Ubuntu
> so popular. ..and there's the temptation to get really
> hot-n-heavy with Slackware or Gentoo. Some of these
> I've fooled around with in the past. Does this make me
> a distro gigilo?
>
>   How about a little banter about distros? What are
> you using and why? Anyone consider things like boot
> time, trimness of the distro, included soft packages &
> version, window manager?