Which Distro?

[Bob Elzer]

I have been a long time Redhat user (Since 5),  I had previously used
slackware.

When they went to fedora I switched to Centos when that came out, I prefer
stable systems, and don't want to upgrade every six months. So for my server
I use Centos, it's very stable.

I run ubuntu on my laptop, I found it was the best system with the fewest
problems when installing on the laptop.

The easiest way to check out a system is to run the livecd. Go to
http://distrowatch.com/ and take your pick.

You can also try Billix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billix it's a usb
installation with multiple distros and does a net install.
http://billix.sourceforge.net/



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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:00 AM
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Subject: Re: Which Distro?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at 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.

OpenSuse 11.1 has been getting some bad reviews of late.

I tried Fedora 10 and the "updates breaking things" problem is NOT gone.
Forget that.  I tried Fedora only because a) Ubuntu briefly broke my
laptop's sound driver (fixed now) and I wanted to play with the "built in
WiFi router" aspects of Fedora 10's Network Manager implementation.  Wasn't
worth the hassles.

I'm back on Ubuntu (8.10 Intrepid Ibex) and you know, it really works.
 I'm at a point now where I'm ready to call Ubuntu the winner out of the
major distros...the only other path that makes sense is to do one of the
"practically roll your own" like Arch or Gentoo if you don't mind a steeper
learning curve and more troubleshooting up front.  You do have more control
though.

I went through a period of hopping a lot circa late '06/early '07.
One that had a lot of promise but just a tad too flaky then was Sabayon,
which is a Gentoo fork with a lot of multimedia add-ons.  For a while it was
the official Beryl testbed distro before Beryl was rolled back into Compiz.
Sabayon has done some updates of late that are getting good reviews...might
be worth a look if you're mildly adventurous and into "cutting edge" stuff.

Jim
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