[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux destro recommandation

[Lance Simmons]

* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031218 17:57]:
> 
> Debian is a good wild card choice... especially some of the
> prepackaged variants (like Knoppix and the gazillion Knoppix follow
> ons).  Hardware detection is excellent.  Nice to see a fall back to
> using the frame buffer for X automatically if nothing else works!!
> Good job.

Debian also has excellent community-based support, which is something
the original post asked about.  Very active email lists and IRQ channels
make it easy to get quick, useful answers to your Debian questions.  Bug
reporting is painless and well-organized (and I've seen bugs reported
and fixed within a matter of hours).  There's every reason to think the
change from the RH support model to the Fedora support model will work
out fine, but the Debian community has been doing for years what Fedora
is (IIUC) now gearing up to do.  But I don't have any Fedora experience,
so I can't make a direct comparison.

-- 
Lance Simmons