Crunch time: Debian, Libranet or FC1?

[Matthew Carpenter]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Sat, 1 May 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
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>>Anyway, my impressions of FC1 were generally good. Sure, there were some
>>niggling problems, but I found it to be actually less buggy than
>>previous RH versions. Of course, it could also be that I am becoming a
>>lot more familiar with Linux. You might want to wait for FC2 to come out
>>for several reasons :
>>- 2.6 kernel
>>- X.org windowing system
>>- Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
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>Also XFS filesystem support in the installer.
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In theory, Gentoo would be my choice for servers....  Only everything 
you want/need.  
However, I'm still getting stuck on my second installation.  It's 
probably my own doing, as I chose to domost of the install offnet using 
the LiveCD packages.  I'm sure nobody who is a guru ever does that so 
I'm probably shooting myself in the foot.  Not to mention not having 
read all the docs yet, just several renditions of the Gentoo handbook 
and the help from guys on this list.

But for me and my clients, we'll use SuSE 8.2pro for just a while longer 
yet :)  It's where we stuck all our efforts for the BigBlock network 
appliance and it's proven quite stable and friendly.  I do keep trying 
with this Gentoo box, though.  Most of the time spend d/l has been over 
ISDN, though.  I've left it at work running emerge world using the 4 
DS-3's and when I came in it errored out again.  I have this striking 
feeling I will be wiping it and starting over again before finding the 
sheer bliss that everyone keeps attributing to Gentoo.  I am still a 
believer... just one who is struggling with my faith and applying it to 
the real world...  Maybe I'm asking too much by wanting a KDE desktop 
system...

Thanks all, BTW, I do appreciate the help.  :)