Re: Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 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.

I don't need a pretty GUI for package management.  apt-get or yum are
both quite sufficient for my needs.

>
> 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.

Don't get me started on my Ubuntu vitriol.  As far as I'm concerned,
Ubuntu is the worst distro in existence.


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