[clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?

[Mike Bean]

I heard that.  Learn a distro, you learn that distro, learn gentoo or
slackware, and you learn *linux. I think that's why I'm kind of gravitating
towards fedora.  It strikes me as a sort of halfway step in terms of
challenge, get comfortable with it, then I can try Sabayon, then Arch, then
Gentoo*

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM, <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> That reputation is deserved.  You only get a command-line distro after
> installing.  You need to install X, GNOME, etc, yourself.  The result is a
> lot less clutter and you have what you want.  It also means you need to have
> some knowledge of Linux.  I don't recommend it for beginners, but I
> sometimes recommend it to more savvy users.
>
> As to why some are the most popular, I can think of a few reasons.  Some
> people only want to use one of the leaders.  That's a valid concern.  A
> minor distro could disappear.  The major distros might also be more polished
> and have a bigger repository.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com>
> To: "CLUE talk" <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 10:42:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?
>
>
> Arch is number 8 I think.  It sort of has a "harder then fedora, not as
> hard as gentoo/slackware" sort of reputation.  Seems a little curious,
> like most of the top 6 have corporate backers.  Canonical for Ubuntu,
> Red Hat for Fedora, Novell for SUSE.  I know the money's got to come
> from somewhere, but I do think it's interesting that frequently the most
> heavily used distros are the ones with the greatest funding.
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:56 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:
> > > Question, was reading the thread about multiboots in the tech
> > > partition, got curious.  Thought I'd better ask over here, because
> > > at the end of the day, the answer to the question is largely
> > > subjective and a matter of personal taste. (not a technical matter)
> > >
> > > I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone
> > > to assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list,
> > > both at home and at work, but I got a little curious.  Someone's
> > > using those other distros, somewhere...  So I thought I'd just come
> > > over and ask for opinions,  what's your best/worst/most interesting
> > > distro?  What do you use at home?  Provided there are those of us
> > > out there, who don't automatically use Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > (I ask partly out of curiousity, and partly out vague hope that'll
> > > give people an excuse to bring up a distro I haven't seen before
> > > they find interesting, so I can check it out!)
> > >
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> > I use Arch Linux.  I don't know if it is one of the top 6.  Probably
> > not.
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