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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:00:14 +0000, David Bell wrote: > Looking back in the archives it seems that fewer members are using SuSE, > RH, > Mandriva et al nowadays and have instead turned towards Debian and it's > derivatives. Discounting here (myself included) those who like to flavour > out of interest the various distro's, be they either deb or rh - if one is > lucky enough to have the spare time, box or partition. > > Personally I prefer to use Debian and have both Etch and Lenny installed. > The > former, updated and reserved for use in the event that Lenny falls over. > So > far it hasn't :) > > What interests me is why a majority of users seem to turn to the Debian > derivatives in preference to Etch/Lenny? I rule out ease of installation, > as > the Debian installer is easy enough nowadays for a tyro to use. > > Enlightenment anyone? I will use pretty much anything that's put infront of me. I have Debian on my server at home, I used to have Debian on my desktop at home and on my laptop, however those are now Ubuntu machines. I managed to fsckup the Debian install on my laptop and I fancied trying this Ubuntu thing that everyone kept talking about... so I gave it a shot. To be honest, I haven't changed back to Debian from Ubuntu because it *is* Debian. Sure, there's some more polish on it, but it doesn't seem so different to me to warrant making the change back again. I used to use Mandrake. I used it tonnes. I loved it, but it was a PITA to keep "up to date", and in the end I gave up updating it using Mandrake's tools and just compiled stuff from source... sometimes it didn't work, mostly it did. I tried SuSE a couple of times in the distant past and didn't really enjoy the whole "YaST Experience" (and I still can't see why people think it's the best thing since they invented the bread slicer). I haven't used RH in a long time, and I've not tried Fedora. I think I'll be sticking with Debian and it's derivatives for a while yet - keeping it up to date seems so much easier, however I have never really used YUM in anger. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html