which "flavor" of linux is best for MS?
Abe Gillespie
abe.gillespie at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 14 01:35:51 PDT 2005
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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