[Lancaster] Help me select a distrob

[John Scott]

Hi Guys

I have just had a most enlightening experience. My Fedora server crashed,
and I decided to have a change of scenery. I installed OpenSUSE 10.0 OSS
from a DVD I got with Linux Format.

Well, I am very inpressed. Its easy to use, has a great control centre
(Yast2) (I dont use X, and I find the shell gets a little difficult to do
some tasks. 

I would recomment it to anyone.

Cheers

John

-----Original Message-----
From: lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of HAB Boy
Sent: 18 April 2006 06:01
To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Lancaster] Help me select a distrob


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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