[ale] Distro Recommendation

[Robert Heaven]

I was once a loyal Red Hat user on my personal home PC. And, like the other lemmings I went running to Fedora when RH stopped producing a consumer desktop distro. I went through FC1, FC2 and FC3.  After about a year of this I finally got sick and tired of living on the "bleeding edge" and decided to change. You know how it is... one week the printer works, the next week it doesn't, then the following week it works again.

I recently converted to Ubuntu and, so far, I'm happy.


-----Original Message-----
From: aaron <aaron at pd.org>
Sent: Jun 21, 2005 2:03 PM
To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] Distro Recommendation


I have a friend (and former business partner) who now works as a programmer  
for Scientific Atlanta. Sour grapes from BSD hackers not withstanding, it 
seems that S.A. is now migrating to Linux as the OS for all of their embedded 
set top cable boxes and supporting media server products. [Yeah!]

So my friend called today  looking for a Linux distro recommendation for his 
personal and home systems.  His development team now uses a lot of Red Hat 
for test systems, servers and developer desktops, so I suggested Fedora Core, 
as one would think that should be the most similar and "compatible" with the 
commercial Red Hat distro offerings.

Did I put him on the right track? Are there distros that will integrate with 
Red Hat as well or better?

Will pass on any wisdom shared...

peace
aaron
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