[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Nelson Menezes]

 --- Richard Turner <richard at zygous.co.uk> wrote: 
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 15:59 +0000, Martin A. Brooks
> wrote:
> > 1 vote for debian.
> > 
> Now I know this is always a volatile subject, but I ask
> out of
> curiosity, not in an attempt to incite another flame war:

Oh god, what have I done?!

> being an x86
> modern desktop user - preferring to use up-to-date
> versions of Gnome,
> Abiword, Gnumeric, Evolution etc. because they're
> becoming better all
> the time - what does Debian offer me that I don't have
> with RH, FC,
> SuSe, Mandrake, et al. and a good text editor for editing
> config files
> (I'll leave the argument about vi v. emacs alone I
> think!)?

OK, maybe I should have mentioned I'm also a developer and
like to tinker with settings beyond the regular uses of a
"home desktop" system. I do think that Mandrake/Red Hat (my
experience) do offer all that a regular home user might want.


	
	
		
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