[2271] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux Athena questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 21 15:17:45 1998
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 21 Oct 1998 15:05:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: tb@MIT.EDU's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:43:46 -0400"
tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> So Aaron, hearing what others have had to say about Debian and RedHat,
> could you offer any comments on what they've said?
I think I found anything I didn't comment on more or less reasonable,
and am now a lot less sure which distribution I'd favor if starting
over.
> Also, it would help me (new question) if people could briefly indicate
> what their actual experience has been as a user of different
> distributions. If you've installed it once, or ran it for three
> years, or whatever, let me know.
I started out with an weird cross between Yggdrasil's Fall '94
distribution and whichever Slackware version was current at the time,
and then went to pure Yggdrasil when I bought a new hard drive. The
installation then mutated toward some sort of homebrew, especially
after ELF became popular. I then reinstalled with Red Hat 2.1 shortly
after that came out, and have been running various Red Hat releases
ever since.
> My experience has been that I ran Debian at home for a long time with
> no problems, and the FSF has run Debian with no problems. (Debian's
> installation was not clueless-user-friendly [it's supposed to be a
> little better now] but that's irrelevant for an Athena port.) I now
> run SuSE at home, which works seamlessly.
I have no experience with SuSE. Could you compare it with Red Hat and
Debian with respect to issues people have brought up and anything else
you deem relevant?
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
