[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Athon Solo]

Debian Testing for me, Up to date packages. Never had any problems. 
Excellent community.

I was running SuSE for quite a while but it has a number of issues (like 
the way the veterans laugh at you when you start a query with something 
like "I've just upgraded from version x to version y and...".

I haven't found anything else that comes close to Debian yet. Gentoo 
might if I could be bothered with the compile times - but the only 
things I compile at the moment are my kernel, nvidia drivers, apache, 
php (4 & 5) and xchat - plus anything I'm messing about with (currently 
Planeshift). Firefox and Thunderbird get installed via their own 
installers, as do Crossover Office, Zend Studio and my games (currently 
installed are Doom 3, UT2004, Quake 3 and GTKRadiant (map editor)).

I've tried LFS - which was an excellent learning experiance IMO.

I tried Mandrake ages ago - that was nice, but at the time I was looking 
at alternative distro's Mandrake was killing CD drives and I didn't feel 
like risking mine.

Haven't tried Ubuntu - that just seems like a Debian clone to me and has 
yet to be proven in any way. I keep hearing about problems with Fedora - 
especially related to Crossover Office as well as other applications - 
which puts me off trying that.

If I get an AMD 64 I may go for Gentoo.

Allen Brooker

linuxgirlie wrote:
>                          For   Against
> Mandrake            6
> SUSE                  2
> Ubuntu                1         1
> Gentoo                1         1
> Fedora                1          2
> Debian                1
> Novell Desktop   1
> 
> I choose Mandrake, but then again, I haven't had a varied
> choice...lol, started with Corel and then onto Mandrake 8.2, tried
> SuSe for a while but didn't like, and hated Xandros. So I will have to
> stick with my long time partner in crime.
> 
> Jo
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