On Sun, 27 May 2012, Adam wrote:
What distros do you use, and why did you choose them?
I started with Slackware 3.6, mainly because a colleague had already
created the floppies for it. This was on an already old Zenith laptop
with a 486, about 6MB of memory, and no chance of running X11.
(http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/xena/ which is over 10 years old)
I switched to Fedora because it had become popular with many of the
physics projects I was familiar with. Both CERN and Fermilab created
their own versions, which eventually merged in to Scientific Linux.
I've become frustrated with Fedora because of the difficulty of upgrading
without just doing a fresh install, and the fact that then the installer
no longer gives you a chance to do your own disk partitioning, though I
may have found a way around this using their kickstart installer. It
appears to me that Fedora is now driven strongly by the server market and
less interested in improving the user interface.
The physics projects I'm interested in have moved on to CentOS so I may
give that a try, but I have not yet tried it.
I've tried Ubuntu and 10.4 LTS seems to be much better for the desktop,
but I'm hearing from friends that the newer versions also present
difficulties. And again this may be in part because they are only
targeting newer hardware, but I'm not sure. I've also used Debian on
servers so I now know the differences/similarities between Debian/Fedora
which will make it easier to jump from one to the other.
I'm feeling frustrated with Fedora and cautious about jumping over to
Ubuntu, so any suggestions for something else to try are welcomed.
-Eric
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