[LUNI] Re: Seen any good distros lately?

[Francis Healy]

I was happy using Red Hat 9, but switched to Debian when Red Hat pulled the plug on Red Hat Linux.  I tried Fedora Core 2 but had severe problems with the installation since my linux systems are generally older hardware.  Recently I had tried and had sucess with Fedora Core 5, but I am concerned that Fedora Legacy has essentially gone away.  Fedora doesn't seem to support releases for very long.  I will probably stay with Debian if I can get Nessus 3.0 to run well on Etch when it is released as stable..

Samir Faci <sfaci at cs.uic.edu> wrote:  hmm.. Maybe FC just got a bad reputation.. but the when I first used
it... FC1 or FC2 at the time I had a horrible experience with it. Has
it gotten any better?

My issue with all RPM based distros is that whenever I used any
distro... is that it starts out with its core packages and the more I
use my system the more custom it gets and the more from source or from
3rd party repos application I add and the less stable my system gets.

One reason why I'm using gentoo at the moment is that it tends to
provide just about every package and resolve dependencies using just a
simple emerge. Of course getting things to work does take a bit more
effort, but it does tend to keep on working longer.

just my 2cents.

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Samir

On 1/7/07, David Gibbs wrote:
> Mike Scott wrote:
> > I used to use Red Hat, but got tired of having to pay a subscription fee
> > to easily recieve patches and updates.
>
> I went directly from Redhat 8 to Fedora Core 4 without _too_many_ problems.
>
> I used to use slackware, but found the upgrade process to be way too
> painful ... but that was a long long time ago.
>
> Since then I've become quite accustomed to the RPM system, so I've stuck
> with it.
>
> david
>
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