which "flavor" of linux is best for MS?

[Abe Gillespie]

And I'll put my vote in for Ubuntu.  All the wonders of Debian but NOT
tricky for the beginner.  I run Debian on my server and Ubuntu on my
lappy.  Ubuntu's sooooo nice.

Well, looks like we have yet another flavor war starting.  :)

On 9/14/05, Xin <crazygecko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since no one else is advocating Debian here, I thought I would.
>  
>  I've tried lots of distros in the past, mostly Red Had, Fedora SuSe and
> Mandrake.  All of them have unsatisfactory packaging programs, I just didn't
> find rpm to be very good.  With Debian if I need to install any program all
> I have to do is type 'apt-get install program', and hey presto it's done. 
> Beautiful.  No manually downloading other programs it depends on, that's all
> done for you.  Nothing to worry about at all.  And it is very stable.
>  
>  Debian is a little bit tricky for the beginner, but its definitely worth
> learning.
>  
>  Xin
> 
> 
> On 14/09/05, Nikos <nicolas at maich.gr> wrote:
> > Fernando Simon 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.
> > 
> > I'll second that for Slackware...IMHO, it is the most "complete/correct" 
> > distro when it comes to library compatibilities, version etc...
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > nikos
> > 
> > >    Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Fernando Simon 
> > > Mapserver and Oracle Spatial developer
> > > G10 - Laboratorio de Computacao Aplicada - Brazil
> > > http://www.univali.br/g10 - UNIVALI/CTTMAR
> > >
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> > 
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