[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Karl Lattimer]

Laurence Southon wrote:

>> Peter wrote:
>>
>>>                     For     Against
>>> Mandrake              7
>>> SUSE                  2
>>> Ubuntu                1         1
>>> Gentoo                2         1
>>> Fedora                1         2
>>> Debian                2
>>> Novell Desktop        1
>>>
>>> Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my queries.
>>
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>
> I won't add a vote but merely make the observation that one of the 
> great things about Linux is that we have choice, and that choice can 
> be made from personal preference as well as from a consideration of 
> the task to be achieved. Any discussion of what is best, is, in my 
> view, fruitless and a waste of time unless it is qualified by "best at 
> what, and for whom?".
>
> I guess I'm conservative (note the lower case "c"!), as I run vanilla 
> Debian Woody, not even X installed - all command line stuff, but my 
> interest is servers that will remain up for months, years even. 
> Trouble is they run so well I forget how to do certain things when I 
> want to change something!
>
> Remember if you don't like your first choice you can always change!
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurence Southon
>
>
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Very well said

I have very much the same opinion as far as server environments are 
concerned, it is very important to have stability (don't forget your 
apt/yum updates for security) but in a desktop system which will (in 
most instances) only be running as and when required then the entire 
philosophy is different. For instance out of the box readiness is 
important, desktop human interface, and pick up and playability.

karl,