Re: Which distro?
- From: chris <chrisehunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:42:18 GMT
dnoyeB wrote:
I have been a redhat user since RH6, but i am using rh9 now and a little
bothered by the testbed of rh Fedora.
I want to get a new distribution that is easy to use. Not slackware
because its very command line intensive I hear. Not Suse because its
primarily German I hear. I am thinking about Debian.
Vot is wrong mit the Germans? Suse is actually a fine distro, but has
multimedia issues (like Fedora), and requires huge amounts of extras added.
Can you recommend a distro to me? I use linux mostly for Samba, and
firefox/thunderbird. I also use postgres on linux. It supports my
software development with verious server tools like postgres.
I use TightVNC to read my email and newsgroups from my windows box.
Debian will do all you want (when you add in all the missing multimedia
stuff) and will be stable, but it's generally somewhat behind the times.
Debian has the most unbelievably extended "testing" period, so new and
exciting programs don't make it into the distro until long after everyone
else has been using them.
Is fedora actually a good choice for me? I have rebuilt the kernel many
times, but im worried that with Fedora how do I stay stable and up to
date as well?
Make the move to mandriva. It works really well straight out of the box,
has every possible multimedia option available if you add the PLF to your
repositories list, and can be as "cutting edge" as you could ever want.
There are builds for every major architecture, and I've had very few
stability problems since Mandrake 8-ish.
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