[luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Thu Jul 11 08:49:01 PDT 2002
Carl Tucker wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:38:12PM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>
>
>>I will greatly appreciate counter comments about my conclusion that
>>Mandrake is the best distro for desktops.
>
>
> I last used SuSE 7.1, which I really liked. I've always hated
> RedHat. Never tried Mandrake.
>
> Now I like FreeBSD, which isn't Linux at all (but very similar).
> As long as you're in an experimental mood, you might check that
> out as well. All my machines are FreeBSD now.
>
> Available packages are even simpler to install and maintain with
> the FreeBSD ports system than the RPM system (IMO). A list of
> ports to native FreeBSD can be found at
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
> Also, even if your favorite application doesn't have a FreeBSD
> ports, you can run in "Linux emulation" mode, so everything that
> works on the Linux machine will work with FreeBSD.
>
If you like the ports system, but still prefer the Linux kernel, I
believe Gentoo has packaging based on BSD ports. Of course, like
FreeBSD, it's definately not a newbie oriented thing. Also, if you like
BSDs, there are definately other BSDs than FreeBSD. I personally prefer
the "lightness" of NetBSD or OpenBSD. I had a FreeBSD box for a while
but blew it away for OpenBSD.
...
--MonMotha
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