Thread: Irrelevant question?

I have used both Red Hat, and Mandrake and I finally found SuSE and personally I found it the best - but to tell the truth, there really isn't that much difference.

Is the fav distro down to image rather than anything else?

I know SuSe is German, but it seems to be the favourite in Europe where as Red Hat, being the US saviour, is the top name in the US.

Obviously there a few differences, but overall, it is all GNU/Linux - the newer the distro, the better it is.

As a relative newbie, please correct my ignorance! :-)

LOL!!!
Slackware, funny!
Slackware was once a security nightmare.
I still think building your own linux is the best, for newbies RedHat because it is so simple.

howdy,
i also started with mandrake and went to RH. coming from the unix world in the early 80's i find any version of Linux a real treat.
speaking of slakeware, i hear alot about it but so far it all seems to be a lot of talk. can someone explain to me why i would take off my red hat ( that's a joke son) and become a slaker.

M.R.

you wouldn't
RedHat (opinion) is far better than slackware
Slackware has a lot of comotion because the users of it are strong supporters almost like nationalism to their OS
I am not a strong supporter of anything except RedHat Linux (GREAT SERVER!!!)
and my own Distro Lynux

but I have a lot of pride for Linux and I appreciate slackware for what it has contributed to the Open Source Community.

Red Hat is the least secure distro "out of the box". It can, of course, be secured with some quality time in /etc/inetd.conf.

Red Hat is good for beginners and for network/system administrators who want to spend a minimal amount of time setting up and maintaining the system. Red Hat accomplishes these things by adding tools to simplify things, such as setting up a sound card with 'setsound'. Red Hat does well in the US because of marketing, and their efforts to simplify Linux. Beginners like Lynux-Penguin are advised to stick with RH.

I like Slackware because it is a real "hands on" operating system. You can't really fake anything with Slack. You either know how to do something, or you're in for a great learning experience. There are few wimp-outs like 'setsound'; netconfig being the only exception I can think of at the moment. It is my experience that Slackware is a favorite among the technophiles and engineering types.

I have heard a lot of good things about SuSE. In fact, I don't recall ever hearing a bad thing about SuSE. I'll have to take it for a spin someday.

To answer your question, f0ul, favorite distro seems to be religion more than anything else :)

howdy,
GUI's. config tools and all of the fluffy stuff aside, if a person wants to learn an OS especialy Linux it is very easy to find truck loads of doc on line.
my reason for going to Linux was a total lack of stability in the last version of windoze i used (winME).
i have found the kernel installed with this distro of RH to be SLIGHTLY more stable than ME. so for me i look for stability in a distro.

M.R.

I have a geeky friend who swears by BSD and has left me confused again - the only difference i could see with this was that BSD is designed for SCSI based Intel class CPU systems - maybe a very simplistic description, but seems to cover the basics!

The other point I noticed that the more user friendly a distro is, the less people rate it - is this the techie way of being macho?

surely if a distro has all the software you need, and all that software works well together, then its a good package?

Originally posted by f0ul
The other point I noticed that the more user friendly a distro is, the less people rate it - is this the techie way of being macho?

I think you might be right on that, although I have never thought of it that way. I have always considered it a 'quest for knowledge'.

Originally posted by f0ul
surely if a distro has all the software you need, and all that software works well together, then its a good package?

I have to agree. 'Good' is a relative term, so if it is good for you then it is 'good'.

howdy,
BRAVO fOul!!!!
youve hit it right on the head.
one of the linux users groups that i deal with is completely full of folks that "know everything" and are disgusted by fng's that ask piles of newbies questions.
if you dont mind i will use your phrase

is this the techie way of being macho?

at the next meeting.


M.R.

I am member of a LUG (geekness overwhelming )as well, but they don't seem to have elitist attutudes at all.

Originally posted by Deckard
Red Hat is the least secure distro "out of the box". It can, of course, be secured with some quality time in /etc/inetd.conf.

Red Hat is good for beginners and for network/system administrators who want to spend a minimal amount of time setting up and maintaining the system. Red Hat accomplishes these things by adding tools to simplify things, such as setting up a sound card with 'setsound'. Red Hat does well in the US because of marketing, and their efforts to simplify Linux. Beginners like Lynux-Penguin are advised to stick with RH.

I like Slackware because it is a real "hands on" operating system. You can't really fake anything with Slack. You either know how to do something, or you're in for a great learning experience. There are few wimp-outs like 'setsound'; netconfig being the only exception I can think of at the moment. It is my experience that Slackware is a favorite among the technophiles and engineering types.

I have heard a lot of good things about SuSE. In fact, I don't recall ever hearing a bad thing about SuSE. I'll have to take it for a spin someday.

To answer your question, f0ul, favorite distro seems to be religion more than anything else

thank you for your opinion. However, I need to clarify something, I am not a beginer, i am far from beginer and I didn't say I used RedHat, I use Lynux (my own distro)

Originally posted by Lynux-Penguin
thank you for your opinion.

You're welcome; be assured you will continue to get it. I find the difference between your opinion and mine, is that mine is based on knowledge and experience. Yours is merely contentious.

well, putting the quarrel away, I thought your FIT program was well written and I would like to congradulate you on it.