[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OS choices and why? > Im honestly a little surprised there are no Mac comments yet, so Ill add one :-)
My home PC runs Debian, but my main work system is a Mac. The Mac gives me all the power of Unix, with the easy factor set to the point my wife can use it easily. Not that there are not issues from time to time, but overall, Im very impressed with the OS and how things "just work". And the new Time Machine feature in 10.5 was so awesome that I even paid to upgrade one of my personal laptops to it. Automated backups for the desktop have never been easy for me (it either breaks or there arn't any) so to have it built into the OS is handy. My home PC has been running Debian unstable for many years now. Not for the faint of heart (it breaks from time to time, just due to its nature) but if you are competent enough to fix most problems Debian Sid gives (in my opinion) the best mix of available applications and ease of use. On a regular basis I also use Ubuntu (both 32 and 64bit versions), CentOS, Fedora, SuSE, OpenWRT, and Solaris. I find package management with yum to give me headaches, so I tend to avoid its use, but the Yum based distros are otherwise very nice to use. OpenWRT is great for small systems, by the way. I use it on my DSL modem/router which has only 8M on it. Jay _______________________________________________ scalug-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/scalug-list
