[LUNI] What distro are you using?

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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Branko Kotur wrote:
> I've just recently bought parts for a new computer and will be gutting my old 
> computer for a few extra parts that I didn't buy.  This has led me to put 
> some thought into what distro I'll be installing.  Currently, I'm using 
> Gentoo for my main system, but I'm on the fence as to if I want to spend a 
> few days with no computer (aside from my aging laptop) while I wait for 
> everything to compile.  I've been a Gentoo user for a few years, but the 
> prospect of another long install and even longer process of trying to get 
> things to work the way I want them to, I'm thinking of switching to something 
> easier and faster.  While I love Gentoo once it's up and running, I just 
> don't think I want to go through that hassle yet again.  
> 
> I've recently used Fedora 7 and Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and was wondering 
> what other distros everyone is using so that I can evaluate them against my 
> needs/wants.  I'll be doing the surgery later this week (I may wait until the 
> weekend), so I'll be dowloading ISO's within the next few days.  While I 
> don't mind tinkering with things here and there, I'd like most things to just 
> work right out of the box.  I just don't want to spend 3 - 5 days doing 
> nothing but compiling until KDE is up and running.

Fedora 8 is actually a lot better than 7, much more than you would
expect with a single release difference.  It's pretty smooth.

Obviously, for work I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.  Very solid,
very stable, very boring (in the right way for enterprise computing).
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