[wellylug] Distro of choice

[Enkidu]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:07:25 +1200, you wrote:

>OK, here's a topic to get the tongues wagging. I'm looking for a new distro 
>to try out, and I'm looking for advice. Basically, I'm a RedHat man - we had 
>RedHat 7.3 on the machines I used at uni, and since they handed out copies 
>for free that was what I installed at home. Since then I've tended to stick 
>with what I know, and therefore my most distro has been Fedora Core 1. This 
>suited me quite well because, although I'm not quite a newbie, I have to 
>admit that most of the technical topics that pass through this list are well 
>over my head. I'm also a windows developer by trade (gotta go where the work 
>is, I'm afraid), so the nice GUI is very familiar.
>At home my Linux machine is quite slow (a Frankenstein's monster built up 
>from freebies from all over the place), and I would like a distro that 
>doesn't tax it too heavily. I'm about ready to move away from the GUI - the 
>first thing I do when I boot up is open a Terminal anyway.
>I've notice during my lurking that we seem to have some die-hard Debian fans 
>here, and some Gentoo fans as well. Mandrake certainly sounds appealing - if 
>a bit too much like what I already have. And I don't think I'm ready for 
>Slackware just yet!
>So tell me - what do you recommend?
>
I'd give Debian a go. If you've tried RedHat you'll probably hate
Mandrake. Slackware is not that difficult (well, back in 1996 it
wasn't that bad). Gentoo is OK if you have the patience to compile it
(I know, there's binary packages...)

Cheers,

Cliff