We use both Suse and Fedora here. Though I am not well verse in either, we use Fedora/Red Hat for production for two reasons, there appears to be a strong commercial demand for it (installations and job opportunities) and my significant other says make it so (she is a lot more comfortable with Linux than me so I get to take the back seat on this one). For a desktop and if you don't like bumpy rides, Suse seems to be a good choice. While I am learning, I will use whatever distro the master is using -- this grasshopper has a hard enough time following along.
I am hoping that one day it won't matter to me what distro it is, I can still do what is required. Some of the training material that I have come across on the web that is Red Hat based does not use rpm for installation and I have come across the comment more than once that rpm do not resolve dependencies as well for installations. (ok, I am starting to feel uncomfortable -- someone straighten me out if this is bogus). One of the reasons why we did not move to Suse was, we know how to start and stop processes in Red Hat, knew where the configuration files were and knew how to set the tcp ip information. I loaded up a copy of Suse Server edition that we got from Novell and was presently impressed. All the settings that need to get to was easily accessible (I think Clug still has a couple of copies left if you are interested).
I have always been impressed by anyone who can use Gentoo. For the time being this is way out of my league.
At 07:39 AM 8/19/2005 -0600, you wrote:
On Friday 19 August 2005 06:39, Killer Smurf wrote:
> I"m still fairly new to the linux work and am having some issues. I'm not
> trying to be a distro whore but I would like to ask a few questions. Are
> (in your opinions) rpm or debian distros better to learn on. I'm looking
> for a distro to learn on and right now I'm using ubuntu. I know that asking
> for distro suggestions is kind of like asking you to pick me my favorite
> color but I am looking for some feedback. I want to use the system as
> mainly a desktop but will also be using as a basic web server to learn. I'm
> not quite at the gentoo stage ( after 14 attempts. That's 2 wks I'll never
> get back lol ) and slack I can't seem to get installed correctly. Any
> suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks
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