[ale] Linux Distribution Recommendations

Jay Lovell Jay.Lovell at bridge.bst.bls.com
Mon Apr 22 19:31:38 EDT 1996


Of the various and sundry Linux distributions out on the market now, can
anyone make a recommendation as to a particular distribution to choose or
avoid?  Long term goals are to have a UNIX workstation at home running one of
the flavors of Motif available for Linux (so that is also a consideration).   
I currently have the InfoMagic Slackware distribution running on an I386DX-25
with 8MB of RAM and a 200MB HD, but that will be being upgraded shortly to at
least a 486-33 board.  Slackware seems to be OK as far as installing it goes,
but upgrading seems to be a problem.  I understand you have to remove a
package before you can replace it with a newer version and that could mean
that config files could "disappear" before you realize you should have backed
something up.  Red Hat appears to solve that problem, but I've read some
complaints regarding their setup and install utility.

In any event, I'm interested in the opinions of those who've already trod this
path so that I can avoid the 'muffins' <grin>






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