Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

[Syed Faisal Akber <faisal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gene,

You just asked a very sensitive question.  Asking which distribution to
use is like asking one's religion.  There are no good or bad answers (most
of the time).  Some distributions have merits over others and vice-versa.

I prefer Slackware.

I suggest that you try the various different versions before sticking to a
particular flavour of Linux.  If you can get your hands on VMware
Workstation, you can install Linux in a Virtual Machine while running
windows.  Try out each distribution until you find the one you like.

Linux is just an operating system kernel and nothing more.  It is the
distributions that add more utils etc that add value to the entire
environment.

Good hunting,
Faisal

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Hal2000 wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I plan to move from windows to linux.  Any recommendation on which
> distribution is best?  I was originally going to use Debian, but came
> across an article comparing various flavors, and Debian did not rate
> that well.  The article thought that Redhat was best for servers, while
> Suse was best overall (although they state it's a tough choice between
> the two).
>
> What's your opinion? Not sure what other apps I'll run, but definitely
> the geda suite.
>
> regards
>
> gene
>