On Monday, May 28, 2012 21:50:06, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 15:10:13 -0400 > > Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi again, fellow Linux users! > > > > I've been using Mandrake/Mandriva since I was a newbie in 2005. Now, > > with the company's future uncertain, this seems like a reasonable > > time for me to consider other distros. Besides that, I now have a > > few years of experience that I didn't have back then. Would any of > > you be willing to share your expertise on the subject? > > > > What distros do you use, and why did you choose them? What are their > > biggest advantages and disadvantages? Are there any distros you've > > tried but chosen not to use? What made them a "bad fit" for you? > > I'd be very grateful if any of you would share your experiences with > > various distros. > > > > Just to clarify, I'm open to considering any distro (even if it's > > totally different from Mandriva), and am comfortable with the command > > line. Thanks VERY much in advance! > > > > Adam > > I've been using Fedora since Fedora Core 1.
What qualities of Fedora made you choose it over other options? > Fedora tends to have early releases of FOSS so it is not uncommon for > there to be glitches and incomplete features. Fedora users get a > chance to use the latest FOSS, help to resolve glitches, and influence > its direction. Several Linux distros have "beta" and "alpha" versions as well as the "standard" or "stable" distribution. i.e. this is is a very interesting quality, but also not necessarily unique. [There may details of how Fedora implements this that's unique compared to how other distributions do it.] Many distributions have unique particular niche experimental parts to them. For example several distributions are trying different startup systems like Systemd, Upstart, OpenRC, dependency-based boot scripts, etc. Several distributions have different security setups like AppArmor, SELinux, possibly others. Some distributions have a unique GUI (Ubuntu with Unity, Mint with Cinnamon). Some distributions focus on particular architectures (CentOS, Mandriva, openSUSE, Puppy), others focus widely (Debian, Gentoo). Some focus for a particular purpose (desktop, server, firewall, LiveCD, etc), some try to be flexible enough to be anything or everything. Some are cost free, some cost money. Even the default filesystem differs between many of them (some even still default to ReiserFS which I think is interesting). The number of pre-made packages varies a lot also (openSUSE has about 46,000 while Slackware has about 550). Have a quick parusal through the following link, which /tries/ to make some of these "spreadsheet type" comparisons between various Linux distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions These comparisions probably aren't enough to be able to make a decision on what to try next, but they're at least... something. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jun 6 - Why the Web Needs HTML5 Jul 11 - Mad Science Fair - Open Hardware Expo Aug 1 - Pimp My Network
