On Thursday 09 May 2002 05:37 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > What do you recommend then for a distro? I see - and this is based only on > my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists: > > RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain > standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue. They made it popular > but lost it >
Once I understood RH's release schedules I've gotten along fine with them. I also have no issues compiling my own stuff if they've done something wacky. Basically I look at it this way: x.0 is an alpha release, test if I feel brave. x.1 is a beta, might work OK. x.2 is a stable product now that the early adopters have found all the nasty bits. Anything after x.2 is gravy. It annoys me that they use their end-users as beta testers, but now that I know what to look out for... > SUSE - ? > 6.2 was wierd. YAST did what it thought was best regardless of what I might actually want. I never went back, but probably should since that was a long time ago. > Mandrake - ? > Great when it works, not as well tested as I would like. Uncommonly used code paths tend to be buggy. Try installing 8.0 on an LVM, for example. The feature's there, it just doesn't work properly. > Debian - ? And people say RedHat makes their own standards! Debian was so different from every distro I'd ever used that I finally gave up on it. Just finding things was a major adventure. > > Who else is there - Maybe use gentoo to set it up and then make your own > changes and updates (I do that with Caldera anyway in that I upgrade the > kernels and some of the apps). I also like Lycoris for its out-of-box functionality. I borrowed a number of their RPMS for my RH box, like their version of Xine that seems to work with just about any file format I throw at it. Clean and friendly, if not particularly techie-oriented. Again, I'm quite willing to compile my own stuff, so no biggie if they don't ship my favorite widget. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
