On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:31:48 -0600 David Ibarra via Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would say Fedora, it's what I use, and matured in the past 2 years or so. > You can do in place system upgrades, and seems a lot more work has been put > into stability than in the past. If you aren't buying commercial support I'd suggest checking out whatever support forums you think you'd use with each distro [including buying whomever you'd panhandle support from a beer] and see what they look like. If one of the support forums [or local user groups] seems preferable then use whatever they support. The "main" distros today include SuSE, RH, Debian, and all of their progeny. The real difference in all of these is the package mangler, initial desktop setups, and whether you can escape from whatever desktop settings they've chosen for you. After that it's still linux running largely GNU[ish] software: if you're willing fondle what's under the hood you can do anything with any of these. Depending on your tolerance for learning how to actually manage a working linux system, Arch Linux has a nice package manager, uses pre-compiled content, and avoids much of the cruft found on RH or Debian [and derivatives]. Catch is that you have to care enough to determine what to install. I personally use Gentoo for both servers and desktop: the package mangler is based on BSD's ports system, compiles from source, and avoids most library-version-from-hell tangles. It also allows you to select openrc if you havn't already taken the plunge into hell. Good thing/bad thing: On the one hand you get to choose things like the desktop manger, terminal types, and service utilities... on the other hand you get to choose things like the desktop manger, terminal types, and service utilities. If you specifically don't want to know about choosing these things then choosing them becomes annoying :-) -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing St Louis, MO 63110 [email protected] +1 888 359 3508 _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
