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OT: Linus or annother Linus?
de Kalle Piirainen 04/23/2006 07:16
Mark Warner wrote:
> Craig wrote:
>
>>(And, take a hint, Mark is
>>always flogging Mepis...he's hooked!).
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>
> I can quit any time I want.
>
Firstly I must state that this is not a flame. After that was sorted
out; I can get to asking why MEPIS, Ubuntu and such get such a lot good
attention, especially in this goup? As I understand, these are just
derivatives of Debian? Of course as a winnt user I don't have experience
in this field, but recently I've considered switching and done some
research.
It kinda seems to me that Debian would be the most stable, versatile,
cumstomizable general distribution for the hobbyist, am I wrong? Then
again, especially for large network environments and pros, for example
SLES and Novell distros. And of course SuSe and good ol' Red Hat seem to
be most commonly supported driver-wise, at least by hardware manufacturers ?
I've tried Ubuntu Live (3.1 and 4) a couple of times and it didn't
impress me that much. First of all it doesn't seem work with Intel ICH5
RAID. Without trying I can't say how wonderful MEPIS truly is, but I'd
suspect that it isn't the best choice for every situation :)
Happu linusing to all
- K