Subj : Re: Debian vs. Slackware
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Bruce Coryell
Date : Fri Sep 17 2004 12:16 pm

I've shuffled distros a bit myself,  trying Mandrake, two versions of 
Fedora,  a pre-compiled Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat Enterprise, and 
Debian.  The two finalists, for me, were Fedora 1 and Debian Woody - not 
the latest and greatest of both distros, but solid and established and 
have both of them loaded on machines at the moment.   My sense is that 
Fedora is a good learning distro, but Debian would be the choice for 
real cutting edge stuff.  My goal is to eventually put a few cheap 
machines together and build a cluster, and I would use Debian for that.
(I haven't cracked the Linux modem nut yet, so still use Windows for 
email, newsgroups, etc.)

Bradley Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:45:17 -0400, Gator wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the opinion. I am also considering Gentoo. I am leaning more
>>towards Slackware though. Any opinion on Gentoo?
>>
> 
> 
> Gentoo would also be a good choice, but you may have to spend a lot
> of time just waiting for your system to compile itself. Slackware or
> Debian would get you started quicker, but after taking the (probably
> long) time compiling Gentoo you'd probably like it.
> 
> Brad

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