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

[brad angelcyk]

My main linux workstation at home is a SGI Indy. 
Because of this, I chose Debian Woody mainly because
of the packaging system.  For some reason, when I
compile software on the machine myself, everything
segfaults a few minutes after execution, so I use the
"apt get <packagename>" command to install and the
"apt upgrade dist" to upgrade to the latest base
packages.  I would like to get IRIX for the system
since it is a SGI, but as I do not have a monitor that
works on it, I currently just ssh into it and use the
console.  

Before this I have used/tried different versions of
Redhat, SUSE, Gentoo, Mandrake (*cringes*), Knoppix,
etc on other machines at home.  And back in the pre
1.0 kernel days, I used Slackware.

At work I use Redhat 9 on my workstation because the
install was quick and it had most software that I
needed upon install.

Brad


--- Ralph Miller <rmilpe at sbcglobal.net> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> Please comment on this if you have an opinion.  Do
> please keep the responses to a few short paragraphs.
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Ralph M
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