[LUNI] Re: New to Linux

[Larry Garfield]

Red Hat is often the de facto standard for businesses, for better or 
worse, so you'd better make sure it works with that.  I find Mandrake a 
nice desktop system for first time users, but it's not very popular with 
business.

If it's a hard-core development box rather than a pretty desktop, then 
don't overlook Debian.  Debian stable is a very known quantity, and for 
servers probably fairly widely used.  It's also not as hard to setup as 
some people claim, except for X, which is just a byatch that needs to be 
slapped regardless of the distribution. :-)

Those three are also, fortunately, three of the top four distribution 
versions in use (the fourth being SuSE, with all four claiming to be the 
most widely used.  Meh), so you'll probably cover most users by 
supporting those three.  If you're feeling adventurous later, you'll 
want to test against Debian Unstable and Gentoo as well, although 
probably not in your initial release.

Rick Lindas wrote:
> Hey thanks guys.  Now I know a little bit about what I've got to look 
> forward to.
>  
> Initially, we will have to limit the configurations we support. 
>  
> You see, we don't supply an application as such.  We supply a computer 
> language that our vendors use to write applications.  
>  
> The only thing our company would use Linux for is testing our language 
> to make sure all the commands work the way they should, and test for 
> submitted bugs.
>  
> I've got to come up with some recommendations and probably make the 
> final determination as to what Linux configuration we will support.     
>  
> What are your opnions.  What is the easiest/simplest/most 
> common configuration for newbies to set up and support?  
>  
> Again Thanks
>  
> Rick

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