Re: Recommendations on switching from RedHat to new distro?

#1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:41 AM

ric_man wrote:

> Scott Smith wrote:
>> A friend at work recommended SuSE. I went to the web site, but had
>> trouble figuring out what to download. The RedHat stuff came on CD and
>> was easy to set up.
>
> I'd say SUSE was one of the best Linux distros I've ever used... was
> great at detecting many things straight out of the box...
>
>> I don't want to start a war here, but can someone recommend a distro that
>> is friendly to a non-power user such as myself? (and maybe point me to
>> the CD images or whatever?)
>
> If you're lazy (like me), I'd say giving Gentoo ( http://www.gentoo.org/
> ) a go. You'll only go through the pain of installing once, and then
> you'll be incrementally upgrading bit by bit... the only problem is that
> you'll have to compile a lot (which takes time on slow systems), and
> you'll have to compile your own kernel (not so bad if you choose the
> defaults, or if you've had experience in it before).
>

If you use that argument, Debian is an even better bet. Here also, one needs
to install only once and upgrade incrementally through apt-get.

Plus, he won't have to compile anything.

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