What is a good all around distro to dl?

rosko · 10-01-2002, 04:40 PM

Ok, I'm looking for some help/opinions of what the best distro is for all around use. I wanna be able to do anything on the server side, but also be able to use the linux system as a desktop....suggestions welcome. I have RH7.3 now....just curious if that is up there, or mandrake or another is better. I see a lot of other distros on this board, just curious why they might be better.

Thanks,

acid_kewpie · 10-01-2002, 04:54 PM

are you aware that this question has probably been asked on this site over a hundred times, second time today...

trickykid · 10-01-2002, 04:55 PM

This is asked all the time btw. Most of the time you will only get opinions. That's the power of Linux though, almost any distro can be a good server and a good desktop OS. It all depends on how you configure yours.

I am going to move this to the distro forum where it is better suited also.

rosko · 10-01-2002, 04:58 PM

ok...go ahead and delete it...mod.

neo77777 · 10-01-2002, 05:16 PM

Don't get pissed off, I know you've got flamed in the "10 things" thread, but there is nothing against you, at least I am not - oranges to apples don't play with me, so the best distro there is question, hmm. I think it should be only your own opinion, and if you have time, space and bandwidth to get a couple just go over http://www.linuxiso.org and pick whichever appeals to you better.

P.S. In this thread you'll get lots of slackware references, and you know why - because it is the best one, he-he, looks like I've started it.

rosko · 10-01-2002, 10:32 PM

whoa......wait a sec. I really didn't want that to come across as me being pissed off. Sorry...you misread it. I was really serious about deleting it actually, I felt like an idiot for not posting a more specific question in the "redhat vs linux" forum, right after I posted my own thread. So that's why I asked for it to be deleted. I wasn't being a smart ass.

So just to clear things up.

But thanks for your opinion too

. I might choose mandrake, since I already have redhat 7.3 installed.

-Rosko

neo77777 · 10-01-2002, 10:51 PM

No problems, we're cool, like Fonzies