[KLUG Members] Linux distro comparison

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:30:56AM -0500, Adam Williams was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> Debian defines the concept of conservative.

That's only for the stable version of Debian. The unstable version is
very cutting edge, and works perfectly with kernel 2.6.0.

> > Any way I was just hoping to get some input from whoever is willing
> > to give it.

It really depends on what you want.

Red Hat and SuSE, because they handle version upgrades much like the
commercial Unices, are best supported by third-party developers. Red
Hat, especially with Ximian, seems to do the most for user comfort.
Debian unstable and Gentoo are better for more hacker-type activities.
Gentoo is truly the hands-on distro, but I'm not interested in compiling
ping(8) a dozen times a year. ;-)

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