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I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue.  They just like to make 
standards, rather than follow them.

I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick.  Way too many religious zealots.

Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a wee 
bit too unstable for my taste.  I mean, devfs as the standard???  What 
were they thinking?

SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although i've 
never used it.

So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on. 
RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days.  I think 
they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their market 
share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the needs to 
the l33t script kiddies.  I've got 6 desktop boxes (counting the 2 
laptops), and Redhat occupies 4 of them.  Overall i tend to break away 
from the redhat-isms and install things the way i like them.

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> What do you recommend then for a distro?  I see - and this is based only on 
> my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists:
> 
> RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain 
> standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue.  They made it popular 
> but lost it
> 
> SUSE - ?
> 
> Mandrake - ?
> 
> Debian - ?
> 
> Who else is there - Maybe use gentoo to set it up and then make your own 
> changes and updates (I do that with Caldera anyway in that I upgrade the 
> kernels and some of the apps).
> 
> What distros are worth installing in that they include what they are 
> supposed to and follow the standards?
> 
> I would like to know as I'm building a Linux workstation and also a file 
> server.  I'd planned to use Caldera Server 3.1.1 and WS 3.1.1.

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