[Lancaster] Help me select a distrob

[Ken Hough]

AFAIK, Ubuntu uses DEB packages. Not too surprising as it's based on 
Debian. Mandriva, Fedora and SuSE all use RPM. Debian itself is a bit of 
a geek's distro. Personally, I find it a pain.

I don't know about Mandriva or Fedora, but I do know that SuSE includes 
utilities to allow it to make use of DEB packages.

SuSE has been consistantly reported to be reliable, stable and without 
major bugs -- unlike Mandriva and Fedora. That is what has been reported 
in the Linux Mags, etc, not my opinion.

Good luck

Ken Hough


HAB Boy wrote:
> On 4/18/06, HAB Boy <haobboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 4/17/06, Tony Ayre <tony at localz.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Hab,
>>>
>>>I have spent quite a while settling on a disto that was best for me
>>>(I think it is about 8 years now :) ). I started with 'Definite
>>>Linux' (sadly no longer with us) and moved to Mandrake about 6 months
>>>after that. I stayed with mandrake until version 10.1 and then got
>>>sick of its increasing instability so went on a distro hunt again. I
>>>have now settled on Ubuntu - as it is stable, has excellent support
>>>(wiki.ubuntu.com is superb and so is ubuntuforums.org) and a nice all
>>>round distro.
>>>
>>>I have used Fedora Core as a server distro since FC 1 and have found
>>>it to be usable but not that great - with its default package
>>>management system (yum) leaving plenty to be desired. (luckily you
>>>can install apt, but repositories for it are not as available). I
>>>have not yet had a look at FC5 and likely won't do, as I now use
>>>debian as my server OS.
>>>
>>>So, to summarise - I would stay steer clear of Mandriva as it is
>>>unstable at the moment. Take a look at Fedora Core and Ubuntu. Have a
>>>play and see which one you like best.
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Tony Ayre
>>>localzuk at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>On 17 Apr 2006, at 11:41, HAB Boy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Guys/Gals,
>>>>
>>>>I have done a lot of search to select a distro to switch from Win to
>>>>Linux. Finally, I came up to two distros
>>>>
>>>>1. Mandriva (Mandrake)
>>>>2. Fedora Core 5
>>>>
>>>>Can any of you help me making a choice and may be give me some of the
>>>>pros and cons of both based on your experience.
>>>>
>>>>HAB
>>>>
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> 
> What kinda packaging system does Ubuntu use i.e. RPM for Mandriva
> 
> HAB
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