Which distro is the best?

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asemnor

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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10 Mar 2005 10:04 Which distro is the best?

I havw been using Windows for a very long time .But I have been adviced to switch to linux.I want to ask which distro is the best.Is it RedHat,MAndrake,Debian or some other one.

ryang

Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 52

11 Mar 2005 9:08 Which distro is the best?

Redhat Enterprise Linux

jayavarman

Joined: 18 Feb 2005
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11 Mar 2005 14:52 Re: Which distro is the best?

asemnor wrote:

I havw been using Windows for a very long time .But I have been adviced to switch to linux.I want to ask which distro is the best.Is it RedHat,MAndrake,Debian or some other one.

This is a too much personal topic. You'll get a lot of "personal taste" opinions here.

I advise you to go out and try a few of them. But I would include Ubuntu (http://ubuntulinux.org/) on that list Wink

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Kaleem

Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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11 Mar 2005 16:38 Re: Which distro is the best?

Have a look at
http://www.linuxcd.org

also see
http://www.free-soft.org/FSM/english/issue01/ladislav.html

fsmyth

Joined: 15 Nov 2004
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22 Mar 2005 16:12 Re: Which distro is the best?

A lot of it is personal preference, but you would
have to have used each one to decide.
IMHO, the most solid and (relatively) bug-free, is
SuSE Linux. It's install defaults seem to be as
good as, or better than, most other distributions-
especially for new users.
Redhat is probably the most popular (more due to
marketing than anything else), but has its share
of problems.
Debian is good, although odd at times.
Mandrake is also good, but they nailed their
configuration files long ago, and are sometimes
hard to decipher.
Most all of them attempt to keep up with the
latest drivers, and it seems that there is a
trend to adding tools to use others install and
configuration files.
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