which "flavor" of linux is best for MS?

[Matt Revelle]

For desktop Linux, I'd second Fernando's recommendation of SUSE (also check
out openSUSE, http://www.opensuse.org, this is SUSE's "Fedora Core").

Other recommendations are Red Hat/Fedora Core and Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Cheers,
Matt


On 9/13/05 16:19, "Fernando Simon" <fsimon at UNIVALI.BR> wrote:

> Hi Sergio,
>     Here in G10 we already used many releases in these couple years. We
> already used Red Hat 7, 8 and 9. Conectiva 9 and 10. SuSe 9.2 and 9.3.
> Slackware 9 and 10.
>     For all releases above we used with Mapserver+Oracle
> Spatial+PostGis+W*S without problems. In my desktop, until the end of
> the last year, I used Slackware, I believe that it's the best release if
> you want to do everything by scratch. Now I'm using Suse 9.3 without
> problems, very stable and secure.
>     I believe that it's very difficult to appoint the best release. I
> prefer to compile everything by myself
> (gd+gdal+PostgreSQL+OGR+Mapserver.....), so for me the best releases:
> SuSe and Slackware. All the releases that you post in your e-mail can be
> used for Mapserver, but my vote is for SuSe.
>     Thanks.
> 
> 
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> Fernando Simon
> Mapserver and Oracle Spatial developer
> G10 - Laboratorio de Computacao Aplicada - Brazil
> http://www.univali.br/g10 - UNIVALI/CTTMAR
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>    
> 
> 
> Sergio Lopez wrote:
> 
>> Hello:
>> I´m a Windows user who wants to move to the Linux world. I want to install
>> linux in a box in order to use it in mapserver applications development,
>> but I know there´s a lot of versions of Linux around (Debian, Fedora,
>> SUSE, etc)
>> By checking this list I´ve seen most popular flavors would be Debian and
>> Fedora, but I want to know from your experience which one do you recommend
>> to use as server for Mapserver applications.
>> By the way, I already have SUSE 9.2 installation CDs, so this would be my
>> first choice, but I want to hear from you before to proceed.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>>  
>>