First, let me apologize for responding in English. My guess is that
most of you will have less trouble with reading English than my Spanish.
But, I'm working on it.
> El Viernes 11 Mayo 2001 15:33, leonardo tellez escribi_:
> > Pura vida Gente!
> >
> >
> > Tengo 3 consultas
> >
> >
> > 1)Cual linux es mejor mandrake o red hat.
> >
> > 2)Cual es el mejor de los linux en general.
> >
> > 3)Si el lilo debo instalarlo en mbr o si no donde
> >
>
> Hola Leonardo
>
> Las 2 primeras preguntas te las podr_a contestar con otra pregunta
> Cual es la que m_s te gusta?
> En distribuciones y mujeres no hay un par_metro exacto para todos, cuando
> somos javencitos (novatos) preferimos las que nos dejen juguetear sin mucho
> compromiso, un poco m_s censatos, preferiremos las que tengan una buena
> respuesta a nuestras necesidades, y para los de experiencia mucho sabor con
> pocas palabras.
> En mi humilde opini_n ...
> solo el tiempo y la experiencia responder_ esta tu pregunta en realidad.
I have been using Linux since 1983 which was really back when you just
loaded programs to build the Linux system you wanted. Over time, three
major "types" of distributions evolved. Within those types there are
then choices. Here is the summary of my experience:
"I know what I want" -- This is a distrubution where there is little to
now structure imposed on you. It is a whole set of packages and you
decide what you want and, more importantly, what steps you will take to
do upgrades. Slackware is the major distribution in this category.
I see two major advantages to this:
1. If you want something specific (such as just a customized
file server for Windows boxes) this is a good place to start.
2. You will learn more. You are more likely to see what you really
need, how dependencies really work and where the configuration
files are located.
This distribution is characterized by packages being in gzipped tar
format.
".deb-based" -- These distributions use the Debian-based .deb packaging
format. The major player is the Debian distribution itself. The other
two players are Corel (who is now partly owned by Microsoft) and Stormix
(who recently went out of business). The .deb package format includes
install and uninstall scripts within the package and dependency
information. This makes it much easier to add a new package or upgrade
a system and make sure that everything is done right. These scripts
tend to include code to rebuild configuration files and generally take
care of possible problems automatically.
Debian is characterized by a steep learning curve for initial installs
but upgrades tend to be more painless than other choices. All
installation information is handled with scripts rather than GUIs.
(What Corel did was build an easy-to-use graphical install on top of
this. Unfortunately it really isn't done so you sorta get dumped off
with no clue as to what to do next.) The Debian project itself
(www.debian.org) is really just a bunch of developers/users rather than
a company so what gets done is what this group sees as needed.
".rpm-based" -- By far the most popular is the RPM-based distributions.
RPM is a packaging format that pretty much took the ideas of the .deb format.
People still argue as to which format is better. The bigger issue is
much more how the format was used rather than the capabilities. From my
experience, .deb packages seem to be more "intelligent" whereas
.rpm-bases systems tend to offer more configuration GUIs. Having over
20 years experience with UNIX, I prefer to avoid the GUIs but that is
just a personal preference.
Here is my quick summary of what is popular in the rpm-based
distributions:
* Red Hat -- Overall most popular but really doesn't stand out
technically.
* Mandrake -- Derived from Red Hat. Tends to fix stuff faster
than Red Hat because they are a smaller company.
* Caldera -- More business oriented. Caldera was first to come up
with a "no hands" install and still remains the easiest to install.
IBM is shipping Caldera on their T22 Thinkpad laptop.
* SuSE -- The most complete distribution in this category. SuSE is
based in Germany and they first ship German distributions, then
do translations. Their recent installer, YAST2 is very easy to use.
Personally, I have an assortment of systems and have run most
everything. But, being publisher of Linux Journal, it's sorta important
that I know what's out there. At work we run Debian on all the systems
and my "stable systems" at home are also running Debian. This system is
Corel-based but with many Debian upgrades.
On some work-related laptops we have Red Hat on one, Caldera on two
others and, as I remember, SuSE on a third. The two laptops I have both
have SuSE on them.
To answer your last question, if you have some other boot loader that
can reside on the master boot record and boot partitions (BootMagic is
one such product and is included with Caldera Linux) then you can put
LILO on the boot block of the Linux partition instead. Also, for the
timid who are just playing with Linux, you can boot Linux from floppy.
I do this when building and testing new kernels.
Hope this was helpful. And I hope that next year I will feel
comfortable writing all this in Spanish.
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Phil Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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