I personally enjoy Gentoo (extremely advanced) and SuSE ... Check out here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/ --- James Helsby <cyanics@xmission.com> wrote:
Cynthia,
While we can all chime in, (my personal is Mandrake), it might help to just determine which distribution best suits your needs.
For instance, if you are interested in a box that will sit in a closet, and never really be touched physically, the a small and powerful distribution will be best suited. For instance, Debian. If you are also going to be using the linux box as a desktop machine, then you will want something that is a little more user friendly, with included packages and features. For instance, Mandrake 10.1. If you are a hacker, and comfortable compiling, installing, and running kernels, downloading new libraries, and getting everything up and running, then you can go much further afield. SuSE is excellent, so is Turbo. If you are looking for something that is similar to what you have right now, try Fedora Core 2 (the newest release (psuedo) from RedHat).
It all really depends on your use / comfort level / application feature set included with the distribution.
PS. I work as a systems integrator, and prior UNIX developer, so if you have any questions, please feel free to shoot them off to me. :-)
Cheers, James Helsby.
Richard Tenney wrote:
Cyn,
I quite like SuSE 9.1, FWIW.
Rich
--- Cynthia Blue <leviblue@utahdogs.com> wrote:
Anyone recommended their favorite Linux OS? I have Red Hat 8 on that box and it's no longer being supported. I'm thinking of setting up a brand new server with new flavor of Linux and moving everything over. My box has been up for 2 years now and I think that's pretty darn lucky with no hacks. :)
Cyn
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