[ale] Distro Recommendation (thanks!)

[aaron]

Thanks to all for your informed feedback on this.

I've forwarded your notes and suggestions to my friend, Mark.

The number of choices in Linux distros has become really overwhelming,
but I still wish I could take a year to just explore and compare them all...

peace
aaron


On Tuesday 21 June 2005 18:03, aaron wrote:
> 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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