the 'which distro' question

[Ken Moffat]

Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>   
>> So I'm getting a new box like everyone tells me to do and now I'm trying 
>> to figure out what to put on it.  I'm an rpm kinda guy in that in the 
>> past I've used rpm from a terminal to install most stuff because I don't 
>> trust a lot of these installer things like YAST.  And most of my older 
>> apps that I want to run on my new box are rpm things.  So it occurs to 
>> me that things like kubuntu that are based on debian require debian 
>> packages, not rpms?  And there seems to be a lot of grief of one sort or 
>> another with SuSE 10.2, so am I left with something like Fedora?
>>
>>     
>
> My vote to Ubuntu and Fedora Core.
>
>   

You might  have a look at blag linux, which is based on fedora, 
therefore rpm based.  I tried it and was somewhat impressed, but am not 
in to rpm's, preferring debian packages.