[ale] Which Distro should I use?

[John Wells]

Everyone has the right to choose ;-).

I for one use Red Hat almost exclusively after trying gentoo, debian,
slackware, and peanut on for size.  Each had their niceties and drawbacks.
 But, in the interest of efficiency, I went with the distro I was most
comfortable with.

I don't necessarily agree with making a decision against Red Hat simply
because they're actually profiting from open source.  IMO, Red Hat is one
of the bigger reasons Linux is gaining popularity and is being considered
as a legitimate replacement for Windox X and for the various *nixes out
there.  Red Hat contributes quite a bit to the open source community, and
I'm glad to see them come close to succeeding.

Pulling for the underdog is fine, but I wouldn't lump them in with
Microsoft yet.  Red Hat is a great distro, and a good company.

John

Geoffrey said:
> Agreed.  I actually have two basic reasons for moving away from Red Hat.
> They don't provide my preferred window manager (Enlightenment) and
> they are the big guy.  I prefer to go with someone who's not number one.
> That applies to my choice of dsl as well.  I try to take that approach
> whenever I can, doing my small part to assist the competitive market place.



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