[mdlug] Chaning distros

[Morris, Tim]

My vote goes to Ubuntu. It's basically just a touched up Debian with a
nicer (IMO) initial X config. Redhat, Fedora and Gentoo are all great
distros, but when it comes to throwing a new app on your system in a
hurry, apt-get install <app>, done. All dependencies are downloaded,
installed and configured for you. I used Yum a few years back and I
still like apt better. 

For the record, you can also install the libapt RPM package for Fedora,
and then you have apt & Yum. 

Gentoo is a wonderfully stable OS once it's installed, and although the
installation does take a long time it's not really that difficult. I
believe Jack wanted a system with which new programs could be installed
easily and remotely. Gentoo can certainly be used remotely, but there's
nothing worse than firing off an emerge at work, and not having it
finish before you leave to go home. I found myself having to Remote
Desktop to my office PC, through VPN and Windows to check the status of
the compile. Although I do like Gentoo very much, the compiling
eventually made me switch back to Ubuntu. I'm just too lazy to compile
everything. Side note: I think the new Gentoo installers can actually
install binary trees now, so the initial OS doesn't have to be compiled
anymore. Is that correct?

I have some old RedHat 5.2 discs if anyone needs them ;)
I386/Alpha/Sparc .... You know you want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Wojtak, Greg
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:25 AM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Chaning distros

The one thing I like about Red Hat over any other distro is that if a
program is written to run on Linux, then the support will, in almost all
cases, include Red Hat.  In fewer cases, the application vendor will
support Suse, and in a few other cases, they don't care about
distribution.  Sadly, the latter are few and far between in my
experience.

Greg


On 1/5/07 9:20 AM, "Robert Adkins" <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:

> jack freeman wrote:
>> I am looking to change distros on my web/mail/mysql server and wanted

>> to know what people here thought at present I am using Mandravia. I 
>> would like a distro that will update automatically and allow me to 
>> install new commands via command line from the disk remotely. I have 
>> a habit of installing the minimal when I do a fresh install and i am 
>> always stuck having to wate till I go home to install a new command, 
>> I want to avoid that seeing how its over an hour to where my server
is.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jack
>> 
>     SuSe works fine for my needs.
> 
>     There's a new "Community Version" of SuSe that should work well 
> for your needs. (I have had a few minor issues with SuSe, but who 
> hasn't had a few minor issues with any Linux Distro?)
> 
> 
>     Rob
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