[luau] Which Distribution To Go With
Steve Anderson
steve at ohana.servegame.com
Tue Nov 4 19:54:01 PST 2003
> Once you get used to single boot diskette based network installs for
> redhat, mandrake, and debian, its hard to go back to downloading
> gigabytes of CDs unless you already own the CDs or are installing many
> machines.
SuSE also does the ftp install ... so no need for those ISOs and/or CDs
either.
Anyway all this distro talk centers on choice, and I had chose RedHat as linux
of choice years ago because I liked the security patch support and a rather
stable product. I could usually depend on RedHat to stay on top of the
patches. Besides they had a business interest in keeping their product
patched.
Too bad RedHat is not the company that they were before they went public. Sure
RedHat is a ton better now and that may be due to that they went public, but
I miss the good ol' days.
Mandrake is okay, but it is a little too close to the bleeding edge usually
for me and my hardware. Other seem to like it fine.
I also liked Caldera at one time and SCO (or someone) has screwed that up for
me.
I liked TurboLinux at another time but you don't really find it on the shelves
at your local store anymore. Probably could download it ...
I like SuSE also. But with Novell buying SuSE, maybe I should just leave it
alone.
Gentoo is cool, but I find that I usually break it when I try to go my own way
instead of using the emerge thing.
I have done OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and I prefer them as servers.
So now I have to choose a new distro. Which will it be ? Slakware, Debian,
Fedora, or maybe I'll roll my own distro! But damn! I'd have to do my own
patching!
Steve A.
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