At 6:37 PM -0400 2002/10/21, Pat Szkarlat wrote:
> And isn't Debian more for developers and for those who already KNOW
> what they're doing with Linux?
Debian is a distribution that is oriented towards stability and
ease of administration. I don't know how it fares as a desktop, but
then I've been using Unix since 1984 and administering it since 1989,
so I wouldn't tend to be too concerned about that.
For desktop uses, I'd definitely pick MacOS X (and have done so).
Failing that, I'd probably go with FreeBSD, not because it makes such
a great desktop but more because I already know it reasonably well
and it has the "Linuxlator" mode which allows it to run most Linux
binaries out of the box (that is, if there were any Linux binaries I
cared/needed to run).
If not FreeBSD, then probably OpenBSD (for security). If not
OpenBSD, then NetBSD. If not NetBSD, then I'm not sure what -- but
if it had to be Linux, it would probably be Debian.
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