Carl Tucker wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:38:12PM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I will greatly appreciate counter comments about my conclusion that
Mandrake is the best distro for desktops.
I last used SuSE 7.1, which I really liked. I've always hated
RedHat. Never tried Mandrake.
Now I like FreeBSD, which isn't Linux at all (but very similar).
As long as you're in an experimental mood, you might check that
out as well. All my machines are FreeBSD now.
Available packages are even simpler to install and maintain with
the FreeBSD ports system than the RPM system (IMO). A list of
ports to native FreeBSD can be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
Also, even if your favorite application doesn't have a FreeBSD
ports, you can run in "Linux emulation" mode, so everything that
works on the Linux machine will work with FreeBSD.
If you like the ports system, but still prefer the Linux kernel, I
believe Gentoo has packaging based on BSD ports. Of course, like
FreeBSD, it's definately not a newbie oriented thing. Also, if you like
BSDs, there are definately other BSDs than FreeBSD. I personally prefer
the "lightness" of NetBSD or OpenBSD. I had a FreeBSD box for a while
but blew it away for OpenBSD.
...
--MonMotha
