[Klug-general] Fwd: Using Linux (Fedora Core 1)

[George Prowse]

Peter wrote:

> Mandrake  2 votes
> SUSE        1
> Ubuntu      1
> Gentoo      1
> Fedora      0
>
> Are there any more nominations or votes?
>
> I agree there are good reasons for switching to Linux but it is a 
> massive project and I  need a fully operational system. I'll give it 
> another go.
>
> Thanks for the responses,
> Peter.
>
Erm, i dont think Gentoo would be a very good choice, you need to be 
reasonably experienced to use it, get a good understanding of GCC 
optimisations first otherwise someone will tell you to -ffast-math and 
-funroll-loop everything and you'll end up -ffucking-up-your-system.. 
For a prime example of that look at 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74072 (i shudder when i see those 
CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and USE flags...)

Ubuntu isn't good because its still in development (looks sweet though). 
Fedora for along the same lines.

Slackware for similar reasons as Gentoo, slapt-get is a nightmare but 
swaret is good

I'd suggest debian because you will learn more about the system itself, 
if you are willing to ask why things are happening then you will find 
yourself learning quite fast. If you dont have the time to learn the 
Novell Desktop Linux or Mandrake. Probably Mandrake

George