[clue-tech] Distro match maker.

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:07:56 -0700
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> 
> Give it a try.  If it fails miserably I'd be interested to hear your 
> experience.  Be fun to run some newbies through and see what they come 
> up with.

Fedora, Mandriva, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE

Then Gentoo, Slackware, and Arch, all of which "does not have application
library". I'm as puzzled as Matt by that comment. Maybe that's a
back-reference to the "included on CD" preference.

Given what it arrived at for my "top" choices, it doesn't seem too useful.
But maybe that's because I gave it no preference for package management,
and told it I'm an experienced, expert Linux user already. Also, given the
question on stable well tested, stable cutting edge, and experimental, I'd
think they'd differentiate between Debian stable, testing, and unstable.

It'd be interesting to know what choices it comes up with for newbies, and
what answer sets arrived at those recommendations.

It should've asked what type of internet connection is available. I'd hate
to see it recommend LFS or Gentoo for somebody on dialup.

jed
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