29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
1:47 p.m.
On 29/12/11 7:39 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Ahh, fair enough!
...
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.
For myself: I've tried various. Since abandoning Debian ~ 2002 (with few
regrets, judging by their Procrustean approach to packaging), 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.
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.
I would ask what distro supports PowerPC best, but ... as I said ...
maybe I don't even have time for that experiment.
--Toby
Me, I'd probably suggest Debian.
But if I want to run Linux, I'd probably just use a PC, myself. More
drivers, plugins and so on. A large part of the reason to use a Mac for me
is Mac OS.
Yes, I already run (Gentoo) Linux on an x86, and OS X on my Macs. This would
be a spare G5 only; the main one would be OS X.