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

["Mitchell, Earl" <earlm at mips dot com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org]On Behalf Of Grant Likely
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:07 PM
> To: daniel.santos@pobox.com
> Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: Off Topic: Finally installing Linux, sugestions 
> for distos?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> g.
> 
> 
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