Curiousity???

[patgund]

Getting ready to do an install of Linux. The last time I played with Linux, it was Red Hat. Since I'm going to do a new install, should I go with Fedora, or go another route?

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a Linux expert, but I did just recently review a bunch of free/shareware for a program office. It appears RedHat was replaced by Fedora for the cutting edge folks, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the less cutting edge folks. I think you would pick which version based on the risk tolerance of the user of the system.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with Fedora -- but I'd stick with a six-months to 1 year old version; things tend to settle down after a while, and you can avoid the 'oops' factor.

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

I though OSX was your favorite version of Linux.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

No. OS X is my favourite version of BSD Unix. :-)

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

I sooooo love this icon.

[jeran.livejournal.com]

Debian. Trust me. I've used RH and Fedora, and Debian's package-management is worlds better. No chasing dependencies, apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade will automagically do that for you. Etch (testing) is pretty stable for me, but the direct installer gave me fits so I had to install Sarge (stable) and then add Etch to the list in /etc/apt.d/sources.list and go the dist-upgrade route.

Gotta Agree

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with jeran. Go with Debian these days. Red Hat and Fedora have been on a slide. My most recent experiment with Red Hat didn't fare well and I was a Red Hat guy.

This is especially true if you are going to go screwing around with gcc libraries.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

debian - most excellent but if you go bleeding edge sometimes things break in updates. Other than that it's worth it.

Fedora - lots better than redhat from what I've known. But I don't know what they've got in it now.

SUSE - Looks nicer than Fedora

There are many, many other distros. Some even come with game-capable windows emulators that work Out of the Box. (wine's getting better - but is not quite there yet. But there are several patched wine versions that can run ... anything).