Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:58:54PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in almost any

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/11/2011 2:12 AM, Johann Spies wrote: * It was a HPC-cluster that I was administrating. Normal updating of packages was a lot slower than on Debian servers. Cluster nodes should be booting via bootp or PXE, and NFS mounts, and their IP addresses and hostnames assigned statically via

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-11 Thread D G Teed
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Anirudh Parui anika20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in almost any aspect... :-P I had to work with servers runing openSUSE for a few years and I beg to differ. I prefer any Debian flavour

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in almost any aspect... :-P I had to work with servers runing openSUSE for a

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in almost any aspect... :-P I had to work with servers runing openSUSE for a few years and I beg to differ. I prefer any

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:51:46 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Any Debian flavour... you mean you prefer Ubuntu over openSUSE for a server? Wow... can you expand that POV? i didn't make the statement but i can understand the 'pov'.

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I think, the best Distro is, what is fitting the users needs. So just let me explain, why I like Debian, and what alternatives are also fine. First of all, I tested almost 20 distros. The most major ones, but also some not well known ones, like trinux or easy linux for example. My

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/10/2011 1:51 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: You make some valid, neutral points here, and I have no argument up to this point. 4. FreeBSD (and I thought long of it), just lost, as packages and updates must be compiled on the system itself. That was no problem for me, but things hnad to

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:15:04 +0530, Anirudh Parui wrote: The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has his own point of view. Well i found this link which does a good comparison in all domains and want to

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread shawn wilson
I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) On Aug 8, 2011 10:30 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:15:04 +0530, Anirudh Parui wrote: The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And when it comes to finding out what is the best

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used it for a very long time. It taught me the fundamental

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 08/08/11 19:30, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/8/2011 1:35 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Why have you switched to Debian ? Simply for the experience, I try to spend some time with a few different distro's at a time. I've played with RHL, SuSE, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware and FreeBSD, just to name a few. To be

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 8, 2011 12:31 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my

Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-07 Thread Anirudh Parui
Hi Friends, The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has his own point of view. Well i found this link which does a good comparison in all domains and want to share with you all.

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Anirudh Parui anika20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has his own point of view. Well i found this link which does a good comparison