It depends on how much time you have to invest in fiddling with it.
I have about 1 day per week to work on software related stuff, and
use a range of different packages, so I want something easy to
maintain, trouble free and with a large resource of up to date
packages, some of which I generally have to build, cusomise or update
to the latest versions.
I generally ugrade distros twice per year to keep things current.
I've used redhat, fedora, debian, mandrake, suse over the past five
years. The commerical distro's are a bit annoying if you want to use
the "free" versions. I've been using Ubuntu for its past two
releases and found it pretty good if you have a fast internet
connection.
- very little stuffing around after the initial install, and less
setup annoyances than I've had in the past, good selection of best of
breed tools.
- based on debian packages but greater quality control, uses debian
package management tools which (in my opinion) just work better/
faster that the others.
- large array of available packages, pretty good support for 64 bit.
- lots of "howto's" because its pretty widely used.
- a basic install is very fast to do.
- takes a lot less time to manage than my son's windows xp computer
he uses for games.
- automated scripts (third party) for installing non GPL codecs,
fonts, acrobat, browser plugins, java etc.
Any distro requires a few days learning the quirks of layout and
package management, otherwise there wouldn't be any reason for so
many different ones. The UI is the same on all distros, which
basically come down to which window manager you choose, gnome, kde,
xfce... and then of course which editor and ide you choose is
probably more relevant to productivity.
-Bill
On 22/06/2006, at 1:42 PM, Ed wrote:
Someone recommeneded SuSE when I made the jump because it was more
Windows-like in use... Ok... maybe that isn't a good thing ,but it
made the transition a little easier. I would recommend it. I did
have some minor problems installing nvidia drivers under SuSE 10.0
though. I also use Mandrake 10.1. Of all the distros I have
tried, I like these two the best.
Ed
Thom DeCarlo wrote:
Ok, I'm going to take the plunge and replace the OS on my home
computer. My first question is, which Linux should I install? It
has been 10 years since I've had much to do with any of the Unixes
(IRIX and Solaris).
One of the guys at my office likes Mandrake (Mandriva?)... I've
seen the name Ubuntu bandied about... Then there is Suse and
Fedora... Not to forget OpenBSD. (or is it FreeBSD?) And what is a
Debian, anyway?
What do you folks like for OSG development, and why?
Thanks!
Thom
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