<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail@jbaer.cotse.net><br>To: clue-talk@cluedenver.org<br>Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:28:04 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: Re: [clue-talk] survey results<br><br>On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:42:31 +0000 (UTC)<br>dennisjperkins@comcast.net wrote:<br><br>> I think a lot of people don't explore distros any more. Most of my<br>> exploring of distros occurred when I started using Linux. Ubuntu gives<br>> most people what they need, so they don't look any further.<br><br>Well, if you want to get into 'what distros have you used?', that's a<br>slightly different question. I started with RH5.2 and mostly kept with RH<br>through Fedora n, before switching to Kubuntu. But I did try SuSE out<br>once for about a week, in between RH distros. And I've tried out Puppy<br>and DSL. When I was at HP, I used SLES and RHEL on testing machines, but<br>Kubuntu on my desktop. Back in 1999, I briefly attempted to use Debian on<br>the desktop at my job. And I've run Knoppix a few times, either out of<br>curiosity, or because I needed to do something I couldn't do with<br>Kubuntu. And I've run CentOS at home when I needed an environment like<br>the CLUE VPS runs.<br><br>I suppose I have less desire to explore different distros now, because I<br>don't see the cost/benefit working out. I'm liking Puppy on the laptop,<br>but then I make very few demands on that machine, and in fact don't run<br>it much. If/when my needs change, I might look at other distros, but<br>most likely that'll be for purpose-built systems, such as a media<br>center or sound station, rather than looking for some other philosophy of<br>updates, package mgmt. or something like that.<br><br>jed<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>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.<br></div></body></html>