As you know, there are various flavours of Linux, the top 3 in my mind (popularity-wise) being RedHat, Suse, Slackware…
However, I am very intrigued by two relatively new distributions, Ubuntu and Sabayon. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical, which is more or less a Linux consulting firm that uses Ubuntu as a “phylanthropic” vessel which to me is very cool. There ought to be more companies like that. Sabayon so far is totally community based however they have integrated some really cool eye-candy in their distro. They to seem to have released a “professional” verion of the Sabayon, which to me looks like they may be following suit as compared to Canonical.
Has anyone run rither of these distros? Which one do you like and why…
BTW I’m accustomed to RedHat Shrike, Suse 10, and of course Slackware
As you know, there are various flavours of Linux, the top 3 in my mind (popularity-wise) being RedHat, Suse, Slackware...
However, I am very intrigued by two relatively new distributions, Ubuntu and Sabayon. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical, which is more or less a Linux consulting firm that uses Ubuntu as a "phylanthropic" vessel which to me is very cool. There ought to be more companies like that. Sabayon so far is totally community based however they have integrated some really cool eye-candy in their distro. They to seem to have released a "professional" verion of the Sabayon, which to me looks like they may be following suit as compared to Canonical.
Has anyone run rither of these distros? Which one do you like and why...
BTW I'm accustomed to RedHat Shrike, Suse 10, and of course Slackware :)
I currently FC9 for my work laptop and SUSE 10.3 for my home laptop.
I have tried ubunto/BSD/DEBIAN too . in future I want to use gentoo or BSD , but Can do experimenting right now.
They are my work machines.
I currently FC9 for my work laptop and SUSE 10.3 for my home laptop.
I have tried ubunto/BSD/DEBIAN too . in future I want to use gentoo or BSD , but Can do experimenting right now.
They are my work machines.
Jimmy, which BSD would you recommend? Free.. Open?
Jimmy, which BSD would you recommend? Free.. Open?
And what is the status on AMD 64bit?
you are better off installing 32bit system even on 64bit arch.
There so many packages which can't be used on 64bit.
I used freeBSD. newest version and also 5.X version.
Still unless you want to do a lot with firewalls and stuff, suse is not a bad choice at all.
Its all powerful + all desktop utilities.
Unlike redhat/Fedora they do care about their desktop users.
you are better off installing 32bit system even on 64bit arch.
There so many packages which can't be used on 64bit.
I used freeBSD. newest version and also 5.X version.
Still unless you want to do a lot with firewalls and stuff, suse is not a bad choice at all.
Its all powerful + all desktop utilities.
Unlike redhat/Fedora they do care about their desktop users.
Suse and Redhat are not the same they used to be...
I use Debian and am very happy about that.
So to the original poster, if getting all the latest packages is your criteria and you want to have a stable distro, go for Ubuntu (which is in essence more frequently updated Debian, :-))
Suse and Redhat are not the same they used to be...
I use Debian and am very happy about that.
So to the original poster, if getting all the latest packages is your criteria and you want to have a stable distro, go for Ubuntu (which is in essence more frequently updated Debian, :-))
