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

[Jim Ockers]

I personally find CentOS to be overall the most useful distro. However 
there is absolutely nothing leading or bleeding edge in it; if I needed 
that I might be inclined to try Fedora, and I do have Ubuntu running in 
a VM under CentOS+VMware.

I have used puppy and mint but not for any length of time. Puppy is 
great because it's so small, and I always liked DSL as part of a well 
rounded sysadmin toolbox.

If you use the "big" distros then other potentially complicated stuff 
like getting Rails to work is easier because the environment is fully 
supported.

Jim

-- 
Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
Contact info: http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html


Mike Bean wrote:
> 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. 
>>