[Cialug] Distro choice

[Tim Wilson]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
> > They all have strengths and weaknesses (some more than others), but
> they're
> > free, and today with easy to use virtualization, and many distros have a
> > Live CD version, there's not much of an excuse not to try them out.
>
> I can think of one: They're all pretty much the same.  You'll find
> slightly different layouts and different administration methods and
> maybe even a different init system.  But are you really going to find
> anything so different that it's worth the effort of installing it and
> using it for a while?


I think that's why Dave mentioned Live CDs.  With those, you don't have to
install them, you can try them out first.


>
>
> > You can ask 100 Linux "experts" which distro they think you should run,
> and
> > you might end up with 100 answers.
>
> One would hope.


I'd hope the reverse.  That means there are at least 100 different distros
that are "pretty much the same".  No wonder some people think Linux is
confusing.

>
>
> -todd
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Tim
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