Re: Informal Distribution Survey

[Scott Yellig <syellig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Im run debian on both my machines, and find it to be very powerful. Mostly
i like it because it is NOT a commercial distribution. Its completely free
and developed by users, not a company. this means you can buy CDs from
cheap bytes for around 5$, or download your own image to burn.

Asside from that, it uses a package manager to keep depends and everything
working right. RPM is not the native package tool, but using alien you can
install and use rpms and slackware(i think) packages as well as the debian
issue ones.

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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Kevin Mitchell wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Kevin 
>