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Originally posted by Imagine@Nov 6 2004, 03:30 AM
I use Linux quite a lot for programming n stuff. I wont say its good or bad .
It has its prblems . As far as Installation is concerned its really easy .GUI asks U for every little info.
And i would recomend Mandrake(very good interface) or debian (very stable). Every distro has its goodies,
U just have to decide what is more important .BTW i use debian. :thumbup: :thumbup:
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debain is outdated.
Stable?
I prefer slack. Its just as stable but it doesn't take stuff 5-8 years to come into stable. and debians testing is horrible!
(for example.. debain stable(3.0r2, released less then a month ago.. VERY NEW) uses the 2.2 Kernal tree, which has unbearable performance compared to 2.4 and especially 2.6(or 2.6 with either ck, mm, ak, or gentoo patchs), was released in 25-Jan-1999. Thats right. the 2-3 week old Debian is based on software that is 6 years old(its closer to jan 2005 then jan 2004) Teh rest of the distro follows at stuff like Mozilla 1.0(horrible by todays standards)
I stick with
fedora
Slack
and Gentoo.
Depending on the time/what I need.
Mandrake is crap. It hasn't been good since version 6. (which is now outdated)
Redhat and Fedora have long surprassed it in quality, stablity, usablity, looks, and features.
Slackware is quick and feature filled.. and it has no dependancy hell. Its package managment is the best out there.
Gentoo takes time and some knowlage to set up. But its package management is easy to use and get stuff(just type emerge program. ie emerge kde. emerge gnome, emerge x11-xorg.. etc. It downloads, fixs the dependancies, and installs whatever you tell it to. all by itself)(although, just like debian's package managment, it is fundamentally flawed). And there is no distro that runs faster. (Gentoo, Arch, Slack, Debain, in order from fastest to slowest(all are quite fast though) in my expirance)