[cumbria_lug] New distro advice

[Russ Phillips]

Schwuk wrote:
> Russ Phillips wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure you'll all have your favourites, but I'd like reasons why I 
>> should go with whatever you recommend, so that I can make an informed 
>> choice :-)
> 
> 
> Ooooh... How to start a flame war 101 :)

Yeah, next week's question will be "which programming language should I 
use?" :-) I did hope that the fact that people know each other, and even 
occasionally meet face-to-face would prevent a flame war.

> I'm happy to provide Fedora CD's for you at the LUG meeting on Fri.

Thanks for the recommendations, but as Fedora iso's are available to 
download, I'll just download them if I decide to have a look at it. I've 
never used Red Hat, but I'm seriously considering giving Debian a try. 
As I said, I've got Debian on a couple of servers, but the package 
selection at install looks hairy. However, I *think* Debian doesn't 
customise the KDE menu, and I'd prefer a non-customised one. If the 
default Debian install includes KDE, then I may well go with that. Once 
I've got the base install, I'm happy to add anything else that I want. 
KDE includes most of what I want, with the main extras being Opera and OOo.

Russ

PS: I've just seen Mike Saunders' post, and now I'm seriously thinking 
about giving Slackware a try. I haven't seen Slack since my first year 
at uni - that was the first time I saw Linux, and it scared the pants 
off me :-) Configuring X meant editing a (huge) text file, although 
fvwm95 was easy enough once X was actually configured.