the 'which distro' question

[Man-wai CHANG]

>>> 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.
> therefore rpm based.  I tried it and was somewhat impressed, but am not 
> in to rpm's, preferring debian packages.

rpm + yum is as good as apt+deb. The difference is possibly the people
behind them. Besides, I learnt how to compile from source tar-balls when
I was still using Caldera.

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