[Wylug-discuss] [MASSMAIL] Not wanting to start a distro war

[Graham Whaley]

s/the bread/they breed/  auto-spell?  Took me some thought to figure
that out ;-)

So now we need to ask what all the little Pis are doing ....?

 Graham


On 15 February 2016 at 15:28, Gary Stainburn
<gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> I started on RedHat version 3 on God knows how many floppies.
>
> I've stayed with Fedora for everything from laptops to servers until last
> year. I finally got to the point where I could not (didn't want to) keep up
> with the update cycle for Fedora on my servers and moved to Centos - a move
> that I'm very happy with.  My workstations are all still Fedora - for now.
>
> I have got into using Raspberry Pi's, so of course have had to get used to
> Raspian and therefore the Debian mindset.  A move that I found very easy.
>
> One word of caution: watch our for the Raspberry Pi - the bread. I've got
> about 7 in my house so far, and they may well be spreading to my car.
>
> I haven't tried any other dists in a long time.  I did try Gnome when 3 came
> out and that was enough to convince me to stop wandering so I've stayed put
> with Fedora/Centos and KDE ever since.
>
> On Monday 15 February 2016 15:17:19 Graham Whaley wrote:
>> but thought it's always fun to have a look at somebody else's thoughts
>> on what distros are best for what situations:
>>
>> https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/878620-the-best-linux-dist
>>ros-of-2016
>>
>> To chuck in my two pennies... I run Fedora for work (for specific work
>> reasons), and Ubuntu on a personal lappy and an old desktop. I toyed
>> with a ChomeBook last year and have run Mint and Lubuntu not too long
>> ago. No servers at present.
>> I'm tempted to try some of the simplified pretty UI distros like
>> elementary or solus, but don't have the time to invest at present.
>>
>> Hey, Darren, SlackWare even gets a mention in the comments ;-)
>>
>> Looking forward to the meet at the end of the month...
>>
>>  Graham
>>
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