[GLLUG] Distro of Choice?

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:09, after a long battle with technology, 
Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> 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.

SuSE's a nice distro, but it has all the problems common to RPM-based 
systems.

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

"Hear, hear", surely?  I use Gentoo on all my personal machines because 
its installation and configuration process is very well-documented, 
there's no Dependency Hell, keeping a system up to date is insanely 
easy, and it's possible to install mplayer and all its codecs without 
the tedious and obscure steps necessary on Debian.

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