On Thu, 09 May 2002 18:38:40 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue. They just like to > make standards, rather than follow them. >
I would call it "doing it their own damn way." What they do (sometimes reluctantly) becomes standard just because everyone else gives up. > I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick. Way too many religious > zealots. > Total agreement, but lots of people like it. It's really the "old-time religion," emphasis on o-l-d. They do, of course, have a development branch. I could never get one of their base installs to run on my machines. > Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a > wee bit too unstable for my taste. I mean, devfs as the standard??? > What > were they thinking? I guess I resemble that remark. gentoo has been serving up devfs almost since day one, and I can't remember any failures due to devfs. As I said in another post, once you get the arcane syntax down (gentoo does it for you), you forget that it exists. > > SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although > i've never used it. I never did like the SuSE all-in-one configuration file that hides all details of how linux systems really operate. > > So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on. > RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days. I > think they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their > market share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the > needs to the l33t script kiddies. Caldera and RedHat, though miles apart otherwise, share one attribute in common. They like to do it their own way, to hell with any standards. I've always thought of them as the Microsofts of the linux world: we're big enough to do it just because we can, and you have to lump it. As someone else said, ELX is putting together a nice distro for less talented users, but, unfortunately performance sucks. Which brings me back to gentoo. Once you bite the bullet of a few days compile time, you won't ever need another distro. gentoo tries to adhere pretty much to the evolving Linux Standard Base. The init scripts, on the other hand, and the installation packager deviate completely from any sort of standard. The gentoo developers are quite responsive to problem reports and helping out as long as you do your homework and post exact details. There is no perfect distro. You pays you money (hopefully little), and you takes you chances. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.19+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
