Joe, after burning through Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE, PClinuxOS, CentOS, (maybe others?) Ubuntu wins hands down.
There just isn't anything else out there keeping up with the repositories, the aggressive development (I think they do full version releases every 6 months), dependency resolution and community activity. It took me awhile to make the decision. I wanted to make sure I felt out all the other distros so I could have good reasons to choose whatever one I was going to use. Maybe it is the support from Canonical that puts Ubuntu above the rest? Whatever the reason, Ubuntu or some derivative is a sure bet. UbuntuStudio was just released, might be worth checking out. There are Ubuntu Christian edition, Kubuntu (with KDE), Fluxubuntu (with Fluxbox), Xubuntu (with XFCE), Linux Mint, and I'm sure a lot more derivatives of Ubuntu. Aaron Lynch www.InstantSpot.com On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:58 -0500, Joe Kelly wrote: > I'm planning to reformat and older laptop into a linux workstation. > I've seen a few CFUGgers using Ubuntu, but most of the OS's I deal > with are of the RedHat line (RH & CentOS). Other than lack of mp3 > support and some unidentified issues w/ yum/RPM updates & installs on > the RH side, I have not found any justifiable reason to use one over > the other. > > Any opinions from the experienced users out there? > > Thanks, > Joe Kelly > > _______________________________________________ > Reply to DFWCFUG: > [email protected] > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > List Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ > DFWCFUG Sponsors: > www.instantspot.com/ > www.teksystems.com/ _______________________________________________ Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.instantspot.com/ www.teksystems.com/
