On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > This brings up a related question: what criteria do you (collectively, > not just Marvin) use in selecting a distribution? Does the choice depend > on the system being used personally compared with professionally (knowing, > supporting, and recommending distributions?)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Most everyone follows Paul's line of thinking to a greater or lesser degree. I originally picked Red Hat (in 1996) because it was recommended by a Powell's Tech Book Store salesman as locally more popular than was Slackware at the time. I stuck with that from 4.0 through 7.3 when I switched to Slackware for the stability, upgrade ease (which has deteriorated somewhat in the last few releases), and being far enough back from the bleeding edge that I didn't need to pay a lot of attention to it. On my wife's laptops I replaced Slackware with Xubuntu only because the latter more easily recognized the ancient hardware and had everything working. While I don't particularly like having to be familiar with two distributions, it's working OK here. I'm still undecided on whether to install the 64-bit version of Slackware-13.0 on my AMD Athlon X2 server/workstation. I don't know that it buys me anything of value (to me) for such a small network, and it would probably be different from the 32-bit version on my notebook. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
