On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since it's been so dead lately, I figured this would start some lively > discussions. I'm not looking to start a flame war here, but I am curious > why everyone uses whatever distribution they do. I'd like to hear back from > people, especially those not using things like Fedora or Ubuntu or Debian. > The less popular distributions have always been a curiosity to me.
Beware, opinions follow this line. My personal favorite is Ubuntu, for both desktop and servers. I like a lot of other distros though as well. Each one has it's own strengths. * Ubuntu + Faster updates than RHEL/Debian, but still quite stable and well tested. + Good architecture choices: Unity, Upstart, conf.d directories, APT, etc - More complicated package building * RHEL + Clones + Most fully supported Enterprise OS - Slow to update + Easy package building * Gentoo + Fun and interesting for personal/hobby machines + Extreme flexibility - Unnecessary complexity hurts and slows progress at enterprise scale * Fedora + Best implementation of Gnome3 * Mint - Ugly, old, backwards UI choices + Based on Ubuntu/Debian * SLES 9/10 (haven't tried newer) - Terrible pkg management (yast) - Limited pkg repositories + Slightly better Enterprise Application support than Ubuntu * Pardus Linux (Turkish) + Interesting new distro concepts + Not a clone of an existing distro - Limited popularity = Limited testing/support * OpenBSD + Nice network support - pf, carp, openbgpd, opensmtpd, etc + Good security - Painfully limited packages/ports available FreeBSD + Beautiful architecture: base, src, doc, ports, etc /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
