the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Kurt Wall wrote:
<snip>
> 
> I wouldn't make a decision on a distribution based solely on the
> package management system. That being said, I prefer the 
> dependency resolution features of Debian and its clones. Yum 
> handles this for RPM, but it was added as an afterthought, not
> integrated into RPM. I still use Fedora on my main desktop machine
> at work, but I've been experimenting with Ubuntu at KurtWerks.
> 
> However, I suggest experimenting with some of the less popular
> distributions. There's an awful lot of Linux beyond Red Hat, Fedora,
> *buntu, SUSE, and Mandriva.

Thanks.
At this point I think I'll most likely install a debian thing and an rpm 
thing and see if I can get the apps for which I use linux to run 
dependably.

> 
> Kurt


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