> > Fundamentally, what is the general opinion of this newcomer? Is there a > general opinion? Is it basically a solid distro underneath the covers? I > mean, it's debian based, so a lot of the apps are older... I'm used to > that with debian based distros by now. No problem for me.
Got vaguely panned in a linux.com review: http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/12/1424244&tid=127 Personally, I run knoppix (generally installed to a HDD and then upgraded to debian/unstable)... it's pretty well setup... though not spartan like ubuntu apparently is. I mainly plug knoppix as it greatly simplified my volunteer life helping newbies install various distros... Instead of responding to requests for debian installs with a deep sense of foreboding and a heavy sigh at the thought of 'dselect' and other debian "installer" goodies, I was just able to say 'stick this in yer coffee holder, run these commands, and let me know if anything looks funny' :-) also, there's nothing wrong with learning more '*nix' stuff... it won't likely be a waste of your time, particularly if you are at all interested in developing software... and/or volunteering within the FOSS community.. > > I turned to Linux to get away from the overkill of Windows security and > stability problems. I have not been disappointed with ubuntu so far. > I've tried Slackware, Storm, Mandrake, Red Hat (including Fedora), > Xandros 3 (nice, easy), dynebolic, gentoo, JDS r2, and a host of others > I can't even remember from the late '90s. This one just struck a > pleasing chord with me. That's a lot of distros... I'm sure at some point in the future, it will be fashionable to have as many ancient linux distros as possible running in different virtual OS windows on a system.. we're just not there yet.. :-) > > Thanks for your help! > -Gary > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
