Re: Informal Distribution Survey (fwd)

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> After reading the e-mails about the Linux ICQ like apps and seeing the
> subject matter change to distribution questions, I would like to find out
> what other KLUGers are using for their Linux systems.  My idea is not to
> start (another) my distribution is better than yours argument.  Instead I
> am interested in seeing what we all are using and how we like it.
>
> I currently use Slackware on all my machines at work and home (about 15
> machines).  It works very nicely for me.  The installation is quick and
> painless for what I'm looking to do with it.  One of my co-workers got Red
> Hat running on an Alpha machine and another got MKLinux running on a
> Macintosh.
>
> I have heard Red Hat and SuSE both mentioned frequently within the KLUG.
> Are there any others?  Anyone played with Debian? Caldera? Extreme Linux?

I use Redhat 4.2 at home and on all the Linux desktops at the office.  Redhat
5.0 on the two Linux servers at the office (glibc6 is faster under heavier
loads and has better security).  In a big network real package management is
very important (I just wish NT had it),  you can verify that all the files
still exist and which ones have changed,  and cleanly remove an entire software
app. RPM is a beautiful thing.  But the package executables and database file
take up a fair amount of space,  so when I have build very small or floppy-only
Linux machines in the past I have used Slackware something.x .