On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:12, Jeff Lasman wrote: > 1) the problems I've seen reported to this list (I admit they seem to be > waning) There's no real way to argue against this point but I think you'll find there's issues no matter ehat distro you use. > 2) I prefer a solution designed around KDE; for example on RHL 9, > konqueror is almost unusable because of font problems, default > problems, etc., yet on Knoppix it looks and works every bit as well as > Mozilla. I can't comment there 'cause I don't use KDE. GNOME either, for that matter. I use XFce4 and konqueror works fine and looks great for me. I can send you a screen shot for you to compare with, if you want. > 3) I prefer a solution that does what I generally do right out of the > box. The only MSW system here is a server running A1 monitor and the > Mailtraq mail server, so I don't have the options of listening to MP3s, > for example, on Windows, nor do I want to have to continually install > non-supported "stuff"to do what I want to do. I think that because of RH's stance on "free software" you're going to have to work around the non-supported stuff. This could be a definite deal breaker. I don't use my Linux boxes for music or anything recreational (unless you call hacking a recreation), I use my iMac. > 4) I don't like the continuous upgrade cycle forced on me. This is a definite problem. The upgrade cycle for Fedora is quite brisk. If you are looking for something that will have a much slower churn then you might look at the RHEL clones like White Box Linux, CentOS-3 and Tao Linux. > 5) Sometimes RH is on a bleeding edge I don't want to be on; for example > our webservers are still running RHL 7.3 because we're not happy with > Apache 2.x yet. You could always install apache 1.x on your RH9 or Fedora box. Still, a valid point. > As I wrote above, I am looking for good refutations <smile>! Can't say I refuted anything. It does look like Fedora might not be the best fit for what you need. SUSE might be good or Debian and any of it's off-string. I really like Xandros for a straight up WinXX replacement. It's the best of the "desktop" Linux offerings (IMO). Don't know if this was of any help/use for you but it's all I got this late at night (it's 2 1/2 hours past my bed time). -- Akebono vs Godzilla! Coming soon to a theater near you.
