water cooler :: Which Distro?



In my opinion, DSL is excellent, coz:
- fast in my Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 96Mb EDO RAM
- Hdinstall costs only 250-300Mb
- it's enough for me : internet, listening mp3, tiny office :)  , and easy to use
- and..... I forgot :p
- to repair a HDD (with cfdisk, for example)

So, DSL's my favorite.
John and others, carry on!
Quote (Guest @ Dec. 14 2003,04:59)
Which distro for what?  
newbies -> mandrake
developers -> debian
livecd -> dsl
workstation -> HD install knoppix
old hardware -> dsl
suckers -> Lindows
lazy and simple minded -> M$
masochist -> sco

Do you mind if I take that and post it on yoshis forums? We gots lots of people who ask what distro? and poll what disrto? its very annoying and that was very funny, but true...
After the days of....
 peeking and pokeing on a commodore c64/c128 - remember basic?
(Man, If you had a Lt. Kernel, and a fat 80 MEG SCSI drive , you were KING !)
 running analog sweeps with "batch files" on an old at&t XT
 and pounding out big floppies on a "Model 3"............ ahh yes..

I worked on my first pc back in the 286 days, with my brother, who
liked to play Hardball II and keep track of his baseball card collection.
MY first pc was a 386 DX 16 !! 4M on the MB, and 4M on
a daughtercard.. Choplifter and good ol' Norton Commander were my friends then...
Ran DR-DOS for a while, but upgraded! to MS-DOS 5.0, and thought I was in Fat City
AMD came out with their 386DX40, which was a really good
setup for the money....  Doom...  trackers and MOD files..No mp3's

Another ham here in Houston was into the J-NOS / T-NOS scene.
Running packets over his radio, and sending emails without an ISP was "Pretty Cool"
Linux was his game, and he was good at it..  
Got me started with a 2 meter radio, and a small packet program..
Linux was native to the protocol - AX25

I remember getting my first intro into linux from a friend who handed
me a redhat 5 book with a cd in it, and a 6 pack set of cd's from
"MicroCenter"...


Redhat 6, Mandrake, Slackware, FreeBSD, etc...

I really liked Redhat then, and today still run RH9 and FC1 here..

Suse just had everything layed-out differently, which Redhat has begun to do as well....
Slack was really difficult to grasp. dselect was NOT my friend !!
Mandrake was OK, and is still nice..  Always used to crash, though...
I have recently enjoyed the music distros based on redhat, like CCRMA, and so on..
Maybe one day, I can ditch the M$ in the studio...
...and it wouldn't be fair to leave out DSL..  Not only does it run
on just about everything without "breaking the bank",
It's small enough to trash completely when your doing stuff that
you DARE not do on that 5 Gb install of RH9, and big enough
to get done what you want to do, like learn the real guts inside Linux,
without being overwhelmed by the sheer number of files and programs..
.... and a great forum!  Just look around!

73
ke4nt
What about gentoo it's quite nice for developers
Debian just rocks for ease of use.  It has been very stable on any system my friends and I have installed it on.

DSL is a great handy alternative.  I'm running it on my main computer right now, updating every new major distro.  I also have a CD handy usually for when I use other computers and I want a familiar system.

With each new update of DSL, it's becomming better and better.  I can't wait until it passes Debian as my favourite.
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