Re: Need Distro Recommendation

[tom <tom osageinc com>]

On the dark side, assume all will be lost. Backup everything before you
proceed. Start with this assumption and you will not be disappointed.

On the bright side, I had been running Red Hat 7 for over a year on our
server. I was VERY disappointed that many of the utilities and tools
that came with that distro were obsolete when I installed them. I went
through quite a long period of upgrading from buggy stuff to stable.

I installed Debian (Woody) on my laptop as a dual boot. It is a clean
installation, all of the issues were caused by the user -- me ;o) --,
not problems with unstable utilities.

It's worth the effort. Depending on your experience level, count on one
or more days of down time.

Good Luck!

Tom Lamm

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:26, cr wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:29, Keith Powell wrote:
> 
> > > If you are adventurous, you could try Debian. Pros: easy, continuous
> > > updates; good packaging (usually) with a policy for doing things the
> > > Right Way; tonnes of easy-to-install packages (the distribution is
> > > centralised so you don't have to hunt for RPMs); Gnome packages are
> > > usually updated within a few days of their release; a well-organised
> > > community for getting help and requesting package improvements (there
> > > is a mailing list for everything).
> > >
> > > Cons: the installer is actually OK, but some of the questions it asks
> > > are hard to answer if you are new to the GNU/Linux universe (but you
> > > only need to install it once, and there is a very nice manual); if you
> > > want bleeding-edge Gnome, you need to use the so-called unstable
> > > branch (there is stable, testing and unstable) - with unstable,
> > > sometimes a package is broken and you have to wait a few days
> > > before updating.
> > >
> > > I think the plan is to have Gnome 2.0/2.2 in testing soon, but it
> > > doesn't seem to have happened yet.
> >
> > I suggest the excellent Libranet distribution, the "User Friendly" version
> > of Debian.
> >
> > Keith
> 
> Just as a matter of interest, if one replaces (say) a Red Hat distro of 
> Linux, with a Debian one, what happens to all ones files on the drives?   And 
> particularly stuff like browser settings, Kmail folders and so on.   Are they 
> retained the same way as they are when upgrading from one RedHat version to 
> a later one?
> 
> cr
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