Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote:
> Inside the Linux label, my best choice is Debian for the next reasons, the
> same exposed by David Shoon:
>
> ·Debian is FREE
As in speech, or beer? :P Are you trying to use the GNUism as a feature?
(Not that I don't agree that some people might see it that way.)
> ·Debian it's hard to install (not trivial), but it's increibly
> fast and easy of mantain (I have linuxes with 3 distributions
> full-update without any downtime!! All the software it's updated
> since 1998 and all runs perfectly, without soft-problems,
> re-partitionin / reformatting... I think that any distribution or
> OS can say the same about the upgrades.
Actually, 2.2r2 is easier to install than, say, 2.1 was. I *am* VERY
upset at some of the so-called "required" packages; emacs installed it
on my machine by default, emacsulating it, taking up buttloads of my
precious disk space, and it took a long, LONG time to download. My
debian system is a Mac Quadra 950, so you might imagine that it was
somewhat painful to wait for it to download, and unpack, and configure
itself.
> ·Debian it isn't a 'secured' distribution, but it's extreamly
> secure and don't give you any instability. The software used into
> the stable release don't have any 'test or inestable or first-release'
> package that can give you a lot of headaches...
It isn't secured, but it's extremely secure? That doesn't make any
sense. Also, on some architectures (that most people will never care
about) some things just don't work, like xntpd for example. I get
segfaults running both the binary version that I can download from the
debian package archive, AND from the copy I built myself. I wonder if
that's an autoconf failing, or what.
> ·Debian supports a lot of architectures, that give you
> inter-operability and scalability of hardware without surprises
Well, mostly without surprises; Look one comment of mine up. But
largely, debian on my mac is the same as debian on a 486 (which has been
sitting in my shed for some time now, powered off and disconnected.)
> All my reasons are in dependence of my experience, but you can think and
> feel diferent (The number of Linux distributions it's growing, and it's
> 'cos the diferent point of views of the people behind Linux).
Personally, I suggest playing with at least three linux distributions,
and deciding which you like best; Those distributions are slackware,
debian, and redhat. If you like redhat, look into mandrake and SUSE. If
you like debian, stop there. If you like slack, consider trying out
*BSD, mostly openbsd and freebsd. It's worth nothing that at this time,
linux has better SMP support than any BSD; openbsd has no SMP support
whatsoever, at least in the x86 branch; There are people working on
this, or at least thinking about working on it.
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