[GLLUG] Distro of Choice?

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 at 01:54:57AM -0400, Darrel Ray Clute, III wrote:
> I have used Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, Debian, and have built systems from
> source.  Personally I prefer the latter for the flexibility and ease of
> updating, for me anyway.  For a complete newb I would have to say either
> Mandrake or Suse.  Someone considered a newb on the Windows side even I
> would say Linspire (formerly Lindows) just for the similarities to
> Windows, the lack of security not withstanding.  Then there is the BSD
> side of the Free *nix world.  There I have used Free/Open/NetBSD and
> strongly favor Open for the extreme amount of detail to security.  For
> the ease of use factor on the BSD side I would have to say Free for the
> newb and Open for someone with a fairly good understanding of UNIX like
> operating systems.

Here, here, long live Debian/Sarge (at it probably will!...)

(I use Debian also....Sid on my desktop, woody on my servers)

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister
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