[mdlug] Fwd: Ubuntu vs. FedoraCore vs. SuSE

[God of Lemmings]

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> From: Richard Staff <rstaff at sprynet.com>
> Date: May 12, 2007 3:15:26 PM EST
> To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Ubuntu vs. FedoraCore vs. SuSE
> Reply-To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>
> Joseph Vartanian wrote:
>> On 5/11/07, Stan Green <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have the opportunity to reinstall Linux on a file server. (I don't 
>>> care to
>>> talk about why.) I would also like to make it a mail server some 
>>> day. This is
>>> all for my home network. Right now I have machines with Fedora Core 
>>> 6 (Web
>>> server) and SuSE 10.1 (Desktop). I have been seeing a lot of chatter 
>>> about
>>> Ubuntu but have never used it. Is it enough better than either FC or 
>>> SuSE to
>>> take on a third distro? I have no plans to stop using the other two 
>>> distros.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stan Green
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ubuntu has a nice advantage over other distros as a desktop, since it
>> works rather well out of the box.  Ubuntu server however doesn't seems
>> to have any real advantage over other distros as a server.  In fact
>> when I tried Ubuntu server, I had quite a few problems with it (like
>> not booting up after a clean install).  I say until you see a distro
>> that has server features that really impress you, stick with what you
>> know works.
>>
>> -Joseph
>>
> SimplyMEPIS 6.0 has been the best desktop Linux experience for me.
> And that is after going thru Red Hat, Mandrake, Xandros, SuSE, 
> Slackware.
> MEPIS is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.
> I have Synaptic (apt-get) package access to the MEPIS, Ubuntu/Debian
> repositories.
> I can now play with Mono .NET, Perl, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, etc.
> OpenOffice.org, KMyMoney, card games, board games, etc., and so on.
> :-D
> Rick

Prepare for a rush of people saying which distro has been best for 
them...

Personally, I went Ubuntu -> Suse 10 -> Gentoo on AMD64,
The initial setup was a headache, but after that it has been pretty 
nice.


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