[olug] Distributions

[Schmeits, Roger]

Greetings:
I have just joined your list recently and also a newbie to the linux world.
My advice to new people is grab several different distros simply because
some with load and some will not on a particular machine.  At this in the
newbies career they do not have the resources to get it up and running.  My
personal prefernce are (For easy of loading that is!) Redhat6.2,
Mandrake7.1, and Caldera.  

My 2cents worth.

Roger


-----Original Message-----
From: dbw [mailto:lug at robotz.com]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:52 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [olug] Distributions


Slackware was my first distribution. I still prefer many things about 
it as compared to the majority of other Linux distributions.  Would 
I recommend it for an install fest or for the beginning Linux user? 
The answer is "no".  

>Okay, I know, Im risking starting a holy war here.  However, hear me
>out.
>

I suggest that we focus on two individual distributions!  Just two,
that should prevent any holy wars.

1. The widely acclaimed and most popular Redhat Linux distribution.
I suggest version 6.2, I always recommend the dot-two versions 
of Redhat.

2. For those too cool for Redhat, I suggest debian as the second.
There are many people that have not tried out this distribution 
and it seems to have appeal among some of the more technically savvy 
users.  It's not my first choice but it is mentioned quite a lot 
here in the mail list.

However, I would NOT suggest Mandrake... well because...

>Why not just make an OLUG distro?  All you have to do is replace the
>logos and a few text files and you're done.  If Mandrake can do it,
>anyone can...

- Vincent <vraffensberger at home.com> 

That's why; I pretty much see it the same as Vincent.  

Mandrake is really not a mainstream distribution.  It doesn't appeal 
to the ultra-geek nor does it have any appeal for commercial application.


For #2 I would say "Slackware" but I know that Jason and some other 
members are big on debian so I feel that among our group, debian 
seems to have wide spread appeal.  Also, it would give me the opportunity 
to try it again and maybe discover things that I missed the first 
time around.

Redhat and debian.

Further comments available at the following URL:
http://linux.dbw.org/articles/my_first_linux.html

-dbw
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