Subj : Re: a repeat of July 20 request.
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Thu Aug 11 2005 09:02 am

[Apologies for the late reply. Blame the sun.]

Joe Wright wrote:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> 
>> And if it hasn't, well, it doesn't matter - it's still a sensible thing
>> to do.
>> 
> 
> If I may ask Richard, which of the numerous Linux distributions do you
> currently use?

SuSE.

> Why?

Inertia. It works wonderfully well, so why bother with anything else? :-)

> I got Slackware off a CD from a book in 1996 and
> installed it in three tries but within two hours. Not too hard and I
> 'like' Linux. Then I got hired for Windows. If I were to enter the Linux
> world again today, how do you suggest I choose among the distributions?
> Slack, Debian, RedHat, other?

(If you don't have any distro at all, get one. Pick one at random if need 
be.)

Use the distro you have, until you get annoyed with it. If that ever 
happens, that's the time to switch.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
mail: rjh at above domain

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