Re: Off Topic: Finally installing Linux, sugestions for distos?

[Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff dot com>]

Daniel:

Grant Likely wrote:

> On 6/2/06, Daniel Santos <daniel@bytesage.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not much of a GUI guy as long as I have a terminal session I"m
> > usually happy.  But I do like to do stuff by GUI sometimes.
> >
> > Sorry for the off-topic, but I just wanted to get a little input from
> > other developers.  I think I need a real Linux system to do this
> > development.  I do enjoy the fact that I've been able to do so much on
> > this system so far with Cygwin, and it's already somewhat of a "Cygborg"
> > (running sshd, inetd, crond, syslogd, etc.etc.)
>
>
> I started with Red Hat,
> Then for a few years I was a happy Debian user,
> followed by a few years in Gentoo land;
> Now I walk the Ubuntu pastures.
>
> I've had great experiences in all three.  But really, you can't go
> very wrong with Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora Core.  All are easy to
> install, easy to use and easy to maintain.  Gentoo takes some more
> work; but rewarding none the less.


I followed the same progression, but I'm happily stuck at Debian.

If I had to do it all over again, I think I would start with Ubuntu or 
Fedora.  Both have great installers, work on nearly everything you can 
throw at them, and are well supported.

Debian, of course, rocks.  :)  But the currently-shipping installer can 
be difficult for new users.  I've never used Gentoo.


b.g.

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