[olug] Linux distribution selection assistance...

Mon Jul 25 16:03:48 UTC 2005

The test must be broke.
It only picked the distros I have tried and had problems with.
Mandrake (Most), SuSE (9.1), Fedora (3 and 4) Mandrake was the worst back in
1999, It did not sync and lost my data.
SuSE would not work properly with 2.6 and 2 NIC cards.
Fedora 3 and 4 would not install on the P4 hardware properly.

It did pick  Mepis which I have heard about, but not used.

I have been using Red Hat since 1997 and Yggdrasil back in 1994.
I have also played with Caldera when they were a distro before they became
SCO Linux and then quit putting on releases.
I like Xandros, Yoper, and Vector Linux for Desktop.
I use CentOS and RHEL ES for production servers.
I like Slackware and have gotten SuSE 9.3 to finally install on an HP P4.
Previous 9.x releases would not if start an install.
I have used Smoothwall, Coyote, Connectiva, E-smith, Turbo Linux, College
Linux, Ubuntu, and Trustix.
I like Knoppix for a very useful Live CD.
I have played with NASLite and Peanut.

There used to be a Nebraska based distro but it disbanded.

I have tried installing Gentoo but never have gotten it to work good enough
for production.
I used Debian based releases but did not get Debian itself to work great
when I tried it.
I have tried Lycoris, EnGarde,  NetBSD, OpenBSD and SOL.
But found them not what I wanted or needed.

I started out with NCR AT&T UNIX before Linux was created.
I used Coherent when it was around.
I have had to support SCO since 1993.
If I can someday find time to get everything working on Linux properly I
will ditch SCO.
Even though the new SCO OpenServer 6 looks good the price looks bad.
The do include Open Source packages but that is only for looks.
At the rate they are going they may go the way of there SCO Linux.

I also have been a FreeBSD supporter financially since 1998,

Sorry if this is to much info.
If I was not so busy I would attend more meetings.
The last one I went to I think was last summer.

I like building things from source.
But Gentoo has not fit the bill as of last year.
I have not had time to try it this year yet.
I did get it run once but it was so much trouble to get it running compared
to Red Hat that I did not feel it was worth it.
I want to be able to install the OS and tweak it and add my own custom apps
and then use it.
In less than 8 hours.
With Gentoo that was at the time not possible at least for me and the
machine I did finally get it to work on.

Hope everyone has a good week and keeps cool.
And I hope I can someday get a good nights rest.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Mario Steele
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:56 PM
To: dan at linder.org; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Linux distribution selection assistance...

Daniel Linder wrote:

>Found this link.  Kinda neet...
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>http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php
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>Dan
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I actually went through the test, and it couldn't recommend a Distro for me,
and I answered honestly about all the questions. :P  Guess I'm just to
perticular. LOL

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