[Lancaster] Help me select a distrob

[Clair]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 16:52, you wrote:
> Clair wrote:
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> > I'd suggest avoiding SuSE - very non-standard and I dislike the wizards,
> > and the fact you _have_ to use them.
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> Distros are now mostly non-standard in some way. Debian is reckoned to
> be about as standard as it gets, but it's also one of the most techy of
> distros to manage.
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> What wizards? Everything is done under YAST. Simple! Why not use it? If
> you do need to do something manually that's not covered by YAST
> (rarely), then it's not a problem.

By the wizards, I meant YAST. I once put SuSE on a 300MHz box, and had to use 
YAST. Paaaaiiinnn.....

> > FC5 is now all yum, there's now only one graphical frontend to it :)  -
> > this is what I recommend.
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> And this is better than YAST? YAST also has one (very good) front end.
> YAST also has an alternative text based front end (via NCurses).

I wouldn't know - I stick to using yum :)

> >>Result: i usually recommend ubuntu. it has lots of wikis, newsgroups and
> >>howtos - all of which are really important.
> >
> > I think they all do :)
>
> Here! Here!
>
> I really do despair. People use Fedora and Mandriva while acknowledging
> that these distros have problems, and yet reject SuSE which does not (at
> least not major ones).

I only reject SuSE because it's too non-standard, that's all. YMMV. IMO, all 
distros have their problems. :)


Clair