Scott Burch wrote:
I just installed FC2 at home and it's working well so far. I always install apt for it because the default package management sucks. You can get apt for Fedora here: http://freshrpms.net/ I had really horrible problems with FC 1, but FC 2 seems ok so far. I was worried I might run into the dual-boot issue (I need Windows for games), but it dual-boots just fine for me...Ok,
I have been installing RH and Fedora for customers for years (Fedora for
only the last 8 months or so). But, I am slowly seeing that this is not
going be an option moving forward. Fedora Core 1 was a perfectly stable
and wonderful OS, but FC2 is very buggy and looking at the mailing list,
the developers are sticking to the "FC is for testing, don't use for
anything real".
What sorts of issues are you seeing with FC?
So, to get to the point...Libranet (libranet.com) and Xandros (www.xandros.com) are both pretty nice if you want Debian-based systems. I've also heard good things about Mepis (http://www.mepis.org), but haven't ever tried it. If you are going to be setting up systems for them then you could just use plain Debian.
I am looking for new Distro for customers. I don't care about phone
support or any of that crap. I just need something fast and stable. Right now, I think Debian is going to be my best option. Any other
ideas?
As for non-Debian choices I like Gentoo and Arch Linux. Arch Linux (archlinux.org) has a portage like system, but instead of having to compile everything, you download binaries that are optimized for i686. You can optionally compile packages yourself if you need to. Arch is only at version 0.6, but I think they will have a very promising future. Gentoo seems a little more mature right now so I use it, but I really think that Arch Linux could become very popular as it matures some.
I hope this helps... Let me know what you decide to go with!
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