When the "best" question (or "which" in this case) evokes responses with
cursewords and slights without examples, no one really benefits.
Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian is the biggest waste of storage space known to man. 8 CDs! Mostly
crappy, useless, abandoned applications. If you want to use the 2.4*
kernel it's all the way on CD3!? Also the user-interface is NOT for the
easily confused.
This part says the most, or the least, about your breadth of
experience. Sorry, but if you insist on a cd install, the mini iso,
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
is very light. You install what you must, and you apt-get or dselect
what you need. The install is tougher, but the "user interface" is
Linux. This is not easily confusing.
I have no idea what is best, but graphical distro's like Mandrake and
Suse are fine (in spite of their limits) as are Debian and Freebsd (but
they will challenge you a bit more). I have no experience with Fedora,
but it is obviously a very logical and probably easier transition.
Many people are wrestling with this question now that RedHat has made
the strategic decision to support a free OS through the Fedora project
while focusing on its core enterprise customers. As a list we could be
of service to those making the decision of what distro to go with by
keeping our responses informed and somewhat objective.
--scott
