[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU
Mon Jul 7 09:11:36 CDT 2008


On Monday July 7 2008 08:43, James Shoemaker wrote:
>> However, the distro is 99% irrelevant to learning "linux" or
>> programming.
>
>   With the configuration differences between distros I am not sure I
>would go 99%.

I'd say it depends on what you are doing. For end-user tasks, i'd agree 
that the distribution is 99% (or more) irrelevant. For administration 
tasks, the distribution is relevant a good percentage of the time.

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