List Monkey said:
>Hi-
>
>My impression is that RedHat is by far #1 in North America. 18 months
>ago, I was happy about this because I thought they had a really good
>distro...now I am not so sure, afetr the 7.0 fiasco...
Which was on par with their 6.0 fiasco (and probably their 5.0 fiasco, but
I went from 4.2 to 5.2, so don't know). Word I've always heard is avoid a
RH .0 release. I can say that I've been pretty happy with both 6.2 and
the 7.1 on my work laptop.
>
>For my own servers and workstations, I run a highly modified RH 6.2. They
>have a good set of installer scripts that are all GPL'd,
>and are quite easy to modify.
My general advice to folks is to try several distributions, finding out
which one works the way you do. All of them have strengths and
weaknesses, but the most important criteria is that you can use it.
Contrary to PHB belief, not everyone thinks the same way (heck, even
companies don't all operate the same way). One of the strengths of Linux
is that you don't have to do things the "Linux" way - you can choose the
RH, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Caldera, . . .
(this advice also applies to Window Managers / Desktop Environments - the
best one is the one that works for you).
In terms of standards compliance, almost all of them have agreed to follow
the LSB, so as long as you use LSB-compliant apps, you should be OK (well,
when LSB-compliant apps start showing up, but hey, the standard was just
released).
jeff
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