On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> Who cares which distro it is as long as it's GNU and Linux underneath.
>
I second that opinion.
Generally, I like:
SuSE for my own use. It is big and fat with lots and lots of tools.
It also has nice usable configuration tools.
Debian for certain clients. It is big, but philosophically pure.
Thus, I perfer it for LinuxFund.org, PLUG,
ltplus.org, and other OpenSource organizations.
RedHat for most clients. It has sort of become the accepted professional
standard for Linux in the USA.
(SuSE plays this role in Europe and TurboLinux plays
this role in East Asia.)
Corel or Caldera for certain end-users
Corel is cool. It is polished and easy to use.
However, it is a desktop distribution without the
security needed for servers. It also lacks the
tools hackers want (compilers, emacs, etc.)
Finally, I commonly mix and match things between distributions.
I often create my configuration files with SuSE
(or sometimes Corel) and copy them to my RedHat
systems. Sometimes I will go the other way.
I also move software from one distribution to
another. It all works together - at least most
of the time.
Sincerely,
David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux/Unix Group
1440 NE 59th
Portland, Oregon 97213
P.S. Linux works fine on 486 computers. I used a couple Linux
486/33 computers for heavy production work for years.
One had 16 mb RAM and the other had 96 mb.
As I recall, I ran SLS (Soft Landing Software), Slackware,
and SuSE on these machines. I may have used RedHat as well.
Along these lines, I have ran Linux including X-Windows on
machines as small as 386/16s with 6 mb of RAM. X-Windows
is very slow on a 386/16 with 6 mb of RAM, but it works
and works well. My client found the demonstration very
impressive.
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