[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu

[Walter Hansen]

He could always collect them like I do. Linuxmon - collect them all. I'll
trade you a RH 7.3 for a debian sarge.

In my carrier (hey, it's not just a job :-O) I work on RH 7.3-9.0, Fedora
(core2?), Mandrake 10, and have recently thrown debian sarge into the mix.

I do think a good online guide to the distros written by the people who
use them would be a great thing. Perhaps it could be a wikipedia project?
What are the advantages and disadvantages to each. Debian seems like a
very nice system for servers, but probably isn't your best bet for a
rocking desktop unless you want to spend the time tweaking it. Debian
install sucks. I liked the old RH and haven't done a local Fedora install
to see what that is like. I'd imagine something with screen shots of
common tasks and built in shortcuts and configuration aids.

> On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Stephen Cilley wrote:
>
>> I can't say in particular, but one of the things as a
>> complete newbie I find myself asking over and over
>> again is, what's the REAL difference between all of
>> these distros.  I realize that that's probably the
>> whole point of the round table, but I'm afraid I'll
>> get the same answers I've been getting: too general
>> and vague, stuff like, "It's great for media and it's
>> really low overhead."  That's not really enough for me
>> to get any kind of a real tangible understanding of
>> what makes the operating system so good.
>> So, in short, this is my one request: I'd like to SEE
>> all of the key differences demonstrated on the screen.
>>  I'd really appreciate a petting zoo after everybody
>> is done speaking; it'd be cool to be able to have
>> access to 10 different laptops afterward all with a
>> different distro.
>> Anyway, I realize that's not terribly specific.
>> Sorry.
>> Thank you,
>> Stephen
>
> Stephen, It's very hard to ask that question and not get  a "religious"
> answer. The other thing that clouds the issue is that all distros have
> so much in common. You may not get into the differences without having
> to do some system maintenance or installing on a extremely old computer
> (for example). So you could walk around a panel of laptops and see
> different Desktop/Windows managers and perhaps even software installed
> on some but not others, but I'm not sure you'd get a feel for each
> distro without exploring with it on your own for a while. So, what do
> you do? Listen to the ramblings of others (like Troy) and then ignore
> it and formulate your own opinion. Install them all! :)
>
> Rob
>
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