Posted by Tony on 02/08/05 03:45

I would basically agree with Greg's summary, "Easy -> Hard"
and "More Stable -> Less Stable".

It is worth mentioning a relative new Linux distro called "Ubuntu".

I have used Red Hat / Fedora for a few years. I have slowly grown
tired of "dependency hell" and broken packages.

I have tried Debian based Linux(s) and found them far easier to
maintain using apt-get than RPM based Linux distros. Ubuntu is a
Debian based distro tweeked for the desktop. It also runs a little
more bleeding edge than Debian, although I have found it very stable.
I use Ubuntu (i386) Athlon desktop and Ubuntu (PPC) my Apple iBook. I
have Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python, Perl, ... installed and
all running well for my development.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

You can even get a free CD from them...
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/shipit

Tony


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:17:55 -0600, Greg Donald <destiney@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:25:28 -0700, The Disguised Jedi
> <disguised.jedi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all -
> >
> > I've been a list member for a while, helped out some people, and asked
> > some questions. But, today I have a completely off topic, but
> > somewhat relevant question for y'all.
> >
> > What is your favorite Linux distribution? What would you recommend
> > for my situation?
>
> *BSD is not Linux but for a server it's grand. You might consider it
> an option as well.
>
> These are some distros I've used heavily over the years:
>
> Easy -> hard to install:
> Mandrake
> Suse
> RedHat
> Debian
> FreeBSD
> Gentoo
> LinuxFromSratch
>
> Most stable -> least stable:
> FreeBSD
> Debian
> Suse
> RedHat
> Gentoo
> LinuxFromSratch
> Mandrake
>
> Best performance:
> FreeBSD
> Gentoo
> LinuxFromScratch
>
> Best hardware support:
> Suse
> Redhat
>
> I read somewhere where there are like 1100 Linux distros out there
> now, so you might want to try a few. And there are several BSD
> distros as well depending if you want security, hardware support, or a
> little of both. Most anything released in the last year has included
> or will support Apache2 and PHP5. If not it probably will soon.
>
> I run Gentoo and FreeBSD at home and Suse at work.
>
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> Greg Donald
> Zend Certified Engineer
> http://destiney.com/
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