User Linux

[Joe Klemmer]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:12, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> 1) the problems I've seen reported to this list (I admit they seem to be 
> waning)

	There's no real way to argue against this point but I think you'll find
there's issues no matter ehat distro you use.

> 2) I prefer a solution designed around KDE; for example on RHL 9, 
> konqueror is almost unusable because of font problems, default 
> problems, etc., yet on Knoppix it looks and works every bit as well as 
> Mozilla.

	I can't comment there 'cause I don't use KDE.  GNOME either, for that
matter.  I use XFce4 and konqueror works fine and looks great for me.  I
can send you a screen shot for you to compare with, if you want.

> 3) I prefer a solution that does what I generally do right out of the 
> box.  The only MSW system here is a server running A1 monitor and the 
> Mailtraq mail server, so I don't have the options of listening to MP3s, 
> for example, on Windows, nor do I want to have to continually install 
> non-supported "stuff"to do what I want to do.

	I think that because of RH's stance on "free software" you're going to
have to work around the non-supported stuff.  This could be a definite
deal breaker.  I don't use my Linux boxes for music or anything
recreational (unless you call hacking a recreation), I use my iMac.

> 4) I don't like the continuous upgrade cycle forced on me.

	This is a definite problem.  The upgrade cycle for Fedora is quite
brisk.  If you are looking for something that will have a much slower
churn then you might look at the RHEL clones like White Box Linux,
CentOS-3 and Tao Linux.

> 5) Sometimes RH is on a bleeding edge I don't want to be on; for example 
> our webservers are still running RHL 7.3 because we're not happy with 
> Apache 2.x yet.

	You could always install apache 1.x on your RH9 or Fedora box.  Still,
a valid point.

> As I wrote above, I am looking for good refutations <smile>!

	Can't say I refuted anything.  It does look like Fedora might not be
the best fit for what you need.  SUSE might be good or Debian and any of
it's off-string.  I really like Xandros for a straight up WinXX
replacement.  It's the best of the "desktop" Linux offerings (IMO).

	Don't know if this was of any help/use for you but it's all I got this
late at night (it's 2 1/2 hours past my bed time).

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