[clue-talk] survey results

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> 
To: clue-talk at cluedenver.org 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:28:04 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] survey results 

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:42:31 +0000 (UTC) 
dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote: 

> I think a lot of people don't explore distros any more. Most of my 
> exploring of distros occurred when I started using Linux. Ubuntu gives 
> most people what they need, so they don't look any further. 

Well, if you want to get into 'what distros have you used?', that's a 
slightly different question. I started with RH5.2 and mostly kept with RH 
through Fedora n, before switching to Kubuntu. But I did try SuSE out 
once for about a week, in between RH distros. And I've tried out Puppy 
and DSL. When I was at HP, I used SLES and RHEL on testing machines, but 
Kubuntu on my desktop. Back in 1999, I briefly attempted to use Debian on 
the desktop at my job. And I've run Knoppix a few times, either out of 
curiosity, or because I needed to do something I couldn't do with 
Kubuntu. And I've run CentOS at home when I needed an environment like 
the CLUE VPS runs. 

I suppose I have less desire to explore different distros now, because I 
don't see the cost/benefit working out. I'm liking Puppy on the laptop, 
but then I make very few demands on that machine, and in fact don't run 
it much. If/when my needs change, I might look at other distros, but 
most likely that'll be for purpose-built systems, such as a media 
center or sound station, rather than looking for some other philosophy of 
updates, package mgmt. or something like that. 

jed 
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Yes, but you did try other distros. I did it in the beginning to see which one I liked best. I've used Slackware, the original Caldera, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Faunos, as well as building LFS. I've also used Suse and Fedora to bootstrap LFS on a new computer. I installed a basic Gentoo system before getting busy with something else for a while, and never got back to it. I considered it recently, but Gentoo seems directionless right now. 
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