[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the Best Linux & Why?

[Kermit Jones]

Some good comments on this thread.  I started on Red Hat.  Later, I 
moved to Mandrake... extremely easy to use, but it bugged me that they 
often insert Mandrake in the rpm title and it breaks some rpm issues.  
Admittedly, you could simply rename a lot of them, but not something I 
was interested in doing.

As far as community support, I going out on the opinion limb to say that 
the largest communities are probably Debian and Fedora, so support will 
be there for you.  Mandrake Club isn't too bad, if you don't mind paying 
the small yearly fee.

I went to Gentoo a few years back and have recently moved to Debian, and 
I can't say I'll ever go back.  If you're looking for a 
super-easy-to-install version, you might consider downloading Morphix 
(http://www.morphix.org), which is a customized derivation of Knoppix.  
One of the Morphix developers had created Intellibuild, which allows you 
to fully customize your liveCD.  let me know if you're interested, and I 
can customize one for you with whatever programs you like.  It's based 
on debian unstable, but I have yet to encountered any serious issues.

Just .02
Kermit

Ralph Miller wrote:

>For over five years, I have used several versions of Red Hat Linux and now have 9.0.  I have installed them many times only for myself as a single user and now feel quite comfortable doing so.  Still I do almost nothing useful such as compiling C programs I have written, but am getting close.  Do use X graphics for documents and spreadsheets for routine things.  Never contact Red Hat for help.  Occasionally update.
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>At the NTLUG meetings, I hear lots of opinions about which release they prefer.  There seems to be some (or a lot of) emotion involved - "My way is best!"  I hear a lot of Red Hat put down, but mine seems to do what I want it to.  I may be a perpetual Newbie.
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>Still, with the changes at Red Hat, I wonder what to do next, if anything.  I am not sure how Debian or Suse or others would work and appear on my screen compared with RH9.  Would I have months of learning another version?  Clearly most in NTLUG are far ahead of me.  I am retired, so being competent in Linux is not as important as it is to you who make a living with it.  I would like to do more, though.
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>It seems I have spent years beginning to use Linux, so go back to Win98, or now WinXP, to do things that must be done.  Surely I am not the only one like this.  That beginning hurdle never seems to go away.
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>Please comment on this if you have an opinion.  Do please keep the responses to a few short paragraphs.
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>Thank you,
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>Ralph M
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