On 29 December 2011 13:47, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 29/12/11 7:39 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
...
Distro choice in the 2nd decade of the 21st century seems to me to be:
Noob? Ubuntu. Expert?
Server:
Is someone else paying? Run RHEL. Otherwise, run Debian, unless you're
after a toy not a tool.
Desktop:
Ubuntu, unless you're really seriously opposed, in which case, Debian.
If you're not man enough for Debian (and I'm not), Xubuntu or Mint.
Thanks. Maybe others will find the summary useful.
Ahahahaha! Well played! :?D
But there was a question in there, perhaps implicit: why source-based
distros? What do you consider obsolete about them?
For myself: I've tried various. Since abandoning
Debian ~ 2002 (with few
regrets, judging by their Procrustean approach to packaging),
(?)
What do you dislike about .Deb? TTBOMK apt-get is /the/ most mature,
stable and reliable packaging tool there is.
Gentoo's far
and away the one I prefer, especially for any non trivial server
configuration. Binary distributions don't work for me (I use these as well
when I don't have a choice); as far as I am concerned the concept is almost
obsolete. I should try Arch though.
[*Boggle*] I would require a quite spectacular justification if I were
hiring a sysadmin as to why to use Gentoo. I mean really Earth-shaking
stuff.
The pattern here is very familiar (it pertains to
programming languages as
well); the industry is frozen into anachronistic defaults and refuses to
learn from anything that doesn't happen to be the most popular choice. This
is probably not a huge issue for most/desktop Linux users, but some of us
who configure servers or development systems need more flexibility.
Oddly, I agree - but I'm not aware of anything better than
Debian/Ubuntu in this particular area. The most /interesting/ Linux is
GoboLinux but it's going nowhere fast in recent years, sadly.
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