[LUNI] Seen any good distros lately?

[Michael Labowicz]

Hi Mike,
I know there have been a lot of Debian and Ubuntu mentions in the responses
to your post.  I would like to add another... I currently use Debian Etch in
3 computers at my house (workstation, laptop and mediabox/DVR), all of them
use the same repository and packages, which are fairly up to date and
stable.  I used to use Redhat, but got sick of it because of the paid
updates and RPM dependency hell...

Regards,
-- 
Michael Labowicz
http://www.labowicz.com/blog/

On 1/7/07, Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
>
> I am considering changing Linux distros and wondered what your thoughts
> are.  I realize that this is a bit like asking which religion is best,
> but wanted to get some input.
>
> I used to use Red Hat, but got tired of having to pay a subscription fee
> to easily recieve patches and updates.
>
> I migrated to SuSe and have been happy for the most part with it's ease
> of installation as well as being able to handle my peripherals without
> having to go on an easter egg hunt for obscure drivers.
>
> However, given SuSe's current "deal with the devil" (Microsoft), I can't
> in good concience continue to support them and ver 10.1 will be my last
> SuSe purchase..
>
> I have basically three systems that I would like to run on and all three
> have different requirements, so a "one size fits all" approach may not
> be the way to go.  Since I try to pay for distros that I use
> (developers have to eat too), I have no problem paying for three
> distros.
>
> I have a Sony VAIO laptop that I dual-boot between XP (a necessary evil)
> and Linux.  I need good support for the usual laptop hardware, including
> wireless.
>
> Another is a P4 desktop system with nothing special, though I am
> considering buying a DVI video card for the LCD monitor I picked up
> last month, but will probably go with ATI on nVidia which seem to be
> widely supported.
>
> Both of the above run GUIs (KDE) and are used for the usual stuff like
> word processing, email, web etc.
>
> The third is a server which I want to use for ripping audio and video
> (though the audio will probably be ripped on the desktop box using
> ABCDE, and DVDs with whatever tool I get to work, since I didn't have
> room for a CD/DVD drive, but may install vid capture cards for MythTV)
> as well as general file storage.  There is no GUI installed on this
> system, but will probably look at something like IceCast and MythTV on
> this as well as the SlimServer to run my SqueezeBoxes.  This is a dual
> Xeon box (2.8G) with a 3Ware RAID card and 8, 250G SATA drives.
>
> This also brings up another decision as to which filesystem is best for
> this. Since I will be dealing with small (FLAC) audio files, as well as
> large (MPEG) files, there are pros and cons to each (JFS, EXT3,
> ReiserFS).  Though that may be a separate thread altogether.
>
> - Mike Scott
>
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