Stampede

ME dugan at passwall.com
Thu Mar 22 19:40:21 PST 2001


Stampede can be found at: http://www.stampede.org/

It is not as mainstream as distros like:
RedHat
SuSE
or Debian

One strong advantage with choosing a mainstream distro is that it is often
easier to find support for a distro that is more widely used. RedHat is
the most commonly used distro among the attending members of nblug. (From
previous informal surveys.) I think Debian or SuSE is second. I know of at
least 3 people that use Debian that attend these meetings on a regular
basis.

I have not seen or met someone that uses stampede, but they claim to
target the new Linux user. This often suggests that they will offer nice
tools for easy installations and easy configurations. However, in the use
of special config tools to make setup easier, there is a cost: you become
stuck with their GUI manager utils, and must learn the command line tools
in order to make a conversion to other Linux distros.

If you attend local installfests at nblug, or meetings, you would be
better off choosing RedHat as a new user because there are many users of
this that range from newbies to gurus who attend meetings. If you are a
more advanced *nix admin, and have had experience, Debian has some very
good advantages - especially if you admin many debian servers. (Debian can
also import redhat packages, and suse packages, but I am not so sure
redhat or suse can import debian packages. They might be able to do
it now. (?) However, Debian can require more knowledge of what you are
doing when you set it up for the first time. Installation on Laptops seems
to be easier with newer redhat installas than Debian.

So, it exists, and it is out there, but unless you find something out
there that it has that nothing else does, and you are willing to learn a
lot on your own, choose a non-mainstream linux distro.

Summary: by using mainstream, you can tap into a larger userbase of people
that can help you.

(There are many other distros of linux too. I can think of about 5 more
off the top of my head - some defunct/not in active development.)

-ME

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Rafe Magnuson wrote:
> I recently ran across this distro of Linux and was wondering if anyone
> else has tried it? Everything I read about it says the install is similar
> to Slack and that with the i586 compilations the system works much faster
> overall on pentium class or greater machines. Can anyone verify or debunk
> this?




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