On 8/30/06, Mark Haney <mhaney(a)ercbroadband.org>
wrote:
>
> Andy Green wrote:
> > Ubuntu:
> Yeah it's fine. I simply do not like the GNOME
interface. Not anymore
> at any rate.
> >
> > After this, we come to what I think of as the
first surprise in our
> > survey. Gentoo took fourth place with a total of
9.6 percent. Gentoo,
> > to me, is a Linux expert's Linux. I know many
serious Linux users who
> > work with Gentoo to better understand Linux, but
almost no one who
> > uses it as their first choice for day-to-day
work.
> I love Gentoo. It used to be the 'expert's
linux', but I don't see that
> as the case now. The new installer is is pretty
good and they do not
> advocate a stage 1 install anymore either as it
doesn't give the
> performance boost compared to the work involved.
That said, my kids
> laptop's and my Mom's desktop all run Gentoo and
they can handle their
> systems just fine. My youngest is 7, BTW, and she
can emerge packages
> pretty well. I personally find having the
packages installed in their
> default locations (at least according to the
manual), makes life easier
> on me. Plus I've found the performance boost of
not having packages
> compiled for every possibility (within reason) to
be worth the time of
> compiling.
> >
> > In fifth place, we find Fedora, Red Hat's
community distribution.
> > Fedora, while still somewhat popular with 7
percent of the vote, seems
> > to have lost some of its charm to users in the
last year.
> > ...''
> I don't see that it's lost it's charm, IMHO. I
have 13 other servers at
> home running FC3/4/5 and all my systems here at
work (barring my laptop)
> are all FC other than my SGI systems. I much
prefer FC over Debian
> across the board. Debian package management has
always been a PITA,
> whereas yum and RPM's 'just work'. However, I do
see two weaknesses in
> FC. A lack of a LiveCD ( I use these more and
more to promote linux use
> in my family) and the fact that it's 5 CD's or a
DVD to install. Sure
> Ubuntu has a DVD version, but a good standard
install is still only one
> CD the rest you can apt-get. I've never managed
to get a good base
> install from one FC CD. The fact I need to insert
CD 3 for one package
> is a pet peeve of mine, but one I can live with as
long as I have
> broadband where I can ftp install from a mirror.
>
> All that being said. FC is still the best linux
version for general
> desktop use for people who want the 'latest and
greatest'. Ubuntu is
> always slightly behind on that for stability's
sake.
>
> Just my $0.02
Interesting to see this now. I've recently tried out
Ubuntu, and liked it
well enough to put it on another machine. The three
of the other six
machines are FC. . I just upgraded two from FC 1 to
FC 5, and lost sound on
both, and I have no time now to mess around with it
-- after all, FC 6 is
breathing down the neck of what I've got.
Anyway, I'm on the fence. As I get used to the where
Ubuntu puts things, I
may continue switching. I may even drop the Red Hat
subscription. It's an
expensive proposition that amounts to getting emails
about updates rather
than having to remember to run yum every week. It's
nice to have them keep
upgrading stuff, but the software still goes out of
date -- what verson of
java? what version of python?
As far as FC, I know all that Red Hat says about the
bleeding edge, but I
have to work at some other things besides upgrades.
Tonight I'm going to
watch a movie. I'm not going to fix sound on an old
Micron.
FC changes too fast, and RH costs too much.
There's my 2 cnts, too.
--
> Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est.
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
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Regards,
Antonio
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