Hello, On Thu, 02 Jul 2009, Ashok Gautham wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM, krish<[email protected]> wrote: > > So, i am kind of confused which OS to choose! i was thinking UBUNTU is the > > best, > > but fedora 11 is pretty close to ubuntu as far as basic uses are concerned, > > That depends on what you consider as criteria.
That's a good answer! On Thu, 02 Jul 2009, Mehul Ved wrote: > A simple answer - Just choose a distro that you are most comfortable > with. This sounds nice but may be misleading. Indeed, you need to get comfortable with a distro before you can make informed choices. This is a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem! The basic point is "plan ahead". As Ashok Gautham wrote, if you are planning to do development work then choose an O/S which favours developers --- and Fedora is a good choice here. Other choices are Debian "testing", Arch Linux and so on. If you are planning to set up a server, then choose an O/S that provides long-term support. A server should generally be built on the principle "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." Hence, a choice like RHEL/CentOS, Debian "stable", Ubuntu LTS would make more sense here. If you want to get bleeding edge now and are willing to work on the stabilisation, then you can also choose the development versions now and choose to upgrade more slowly towards a "stable" version. For example, you can install Debian "testing" but keep with the release as it becomes "stable". Similar things are possible with Ubuntu -> Ubuntu LTs and I suppose Fedora -> CentOS as well. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
