On Sunday 08 July 2001 02:22, Mel Roman wrote:
> and the two new ones that have caught my eye are
> Suse 7.2 and Mandrake 8.0. I've seen some positive
> first impressions of Suse posted on mail lists, but am
[snip]
There's a question mark currently hanging over the viability / durability of
Mandrake. I hope it's senseless rumour.
The impression I get (not having tried it) is that SuSe is polished bare
metal. A Linux-mechanics dream.
Disregarding all the 'experimental' distros, such as gentoo, such as LFS,
which are undoubtedly fun-installs and tinkering. I have a good word to say
for Redhat (boo hiss, ducks under rock)
My concern was to USE Linux, not tinker with it. I was tired-tired-tired of
incompatible rpm's and undocumented gotcha's in some (very few) tarballs. I
really did, and really do, want to get on and USE my systems, not constantly
wrestle an incompatible rpm to the mat. It is the application I wanted to
use, not kpackage. I do not want to man read-install, i want to F1Help on
application.
Since it was user-applications that interest me, and not, (say) bind, apache,
or sendmail, Redhat inarguably, has the biggest rpm 'base' out there (duh!).
So for me, it is currently a very pleasant fit. (Baring in mind I *also* like
tinkering, I would not dream of doing so with RH)
For me, KDE2 under Redhat has been like a 'welcome home' mat. I able able to
use it as a good desktop and play play play with Kdevelop to my heart's
content. (The underlying RH structure, file systems, and ways of doing
things, is a comlete unknown to me, and I have no interest in discovering
much about it)
If you want the much valued help from the gurus here, I would go for SuSe. If
you want a seemingly painless desktop, use RH. If anything, I would say that
RH took one look at the Caldera eDesktop series, and stole it.
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