[CLUE-Tech] A linux distro that has updates

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:33:15 -0500 (EST)
black at galaxy.silvren.com wrote:

> I'm polling fellow CLUEbies to ask your suggestion on a linux distribution
> that has decent updates.
> 
> I am using redhat 8.0 and 9.0 currently, but as we all know they're
> dropping support for those distributions. 

Here are a few suggestions:

1. If you like RedHat, you can just move to Fedora.  You can get apt-get style updating.  The only problems I foresee are:

	(immediate) the setup is not quite cooked yet 
	(long term) RedHat has said that they will consider Fedora to be
	a development platform for the commerical.  I read that to mean
	that Fedora will be somewhat bleeding edge.

2. SUSE 9.0 is a fine distro, but I never found a repository of updates. I really liked SUSE a lot.  It will be interesting to see how it fares with Novell ownership.  I would expect good things.

3. Debian is always a possibility, and a lot of folks swear by the commercial (inexpensive) Libranet distro.  Libranet stays a little bit ahead of the old and moldy debian stable.  If you want to get your feet wet with Debian, just get a Knoppix CD and perform the disk install.  

4.  My all time favorite is and will remain gentoo.  True, it takes a little more setup time (source based), but it provides a really big repository of packages and updates.  Security updates are processed just as rapidly as for any other distro.

5. I haven't used Mandrake in about 3 years, so no comment on this one.

So many choices, so little time.

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1