Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 16:15 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> 
> I can't stand Debian's religious zealotry, so that rules them out
> automatically (I have no patience for the iceweasel nonsense).  Also,
> Debian's lack of a mature, coherent automated installation mechanism
> (for example kickstart, or even SUSE's autoyast abomination) is a
> major drawback.
> 
> RHEL (and therefore the kernel that CentOS steals - and yes, they
> blatantly steal Redhat's work) kernel is too old for most modern
> hardware, and overall RHEL has such a ridiculously limited number of
> available packages that I'd end up spending half my time rolling my
> own.  If I need to go that route, I might as well use Gentoo.  I don't
> have the time to be building my own packages just to get everything
> that I need.
> 
> SUSE is mildly tempting, except that they're run by Novell, who are a
> bunch of M$ collaborators.
> 
> One thing that I neglected to clarify originally, as that I've been
> reasonably satisfied with Fedora up until 9.  9 has been nothing but
> problems.
> 

I think debian's apt-get/aptitude/synaptic (gui) is very nice.

If you don't like the zealotry, try Ubuntu. It's like debian for the
masses. Decent multimedia support, and a very active community. The sudo
thing is a pain, but can be overridden, enabling root. It's graphically
attractive, and I like gnome, which is the default desktop.

Ken