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brad [netcom61 at yahoo.ca]


Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:50:29 -0700

Hello - A real general question for you linux pros.

What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro? And Why?


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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:52:47 +0000

On 25/03/2008, brad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.
>
>  What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?

tomsrtbt.

>  And Why?

The name's cool.

-- Thomas Adam


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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:30:44 +0530

Hello,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, brad wrote:

> What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?

No true geek will admit to using a distro. :-)

> And Why?

Linus doesn't! :-)

Kapil. --


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Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]


Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:37:41 -0700

Quoting brad ([email protected]):

> Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.

But then you didn't ask about any generals, at all. I was, as Bridget Jones might have said, v. disappointed.

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:54:07 +0000

On 25/03/2008, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting brad ([email protected]):
>
>  > Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.
>
>
> But then you didn't ask about any generals, at all.  I was, as Bridget
>  Jones might have said, v. disappointed.

That sounds like a very odd conversation. Saying "vee dot" when you mean "very". But then she was very weird, I suppose... ;)

-- Thomas Adam


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Jim Jackson [jj at franjam.org.uk]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:32:56 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, brad wrote:
>> What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?
>
> No true geek will admit to using a distro. :-)
>
>> And Why?
>
> Linus doesn't! :-)

Actually he does, though if I remember correctly in an interview, he said he couldn't care less about the distro as long as it didn't stop him working the way he wanted to and kept his work platform going.

He does have very strong views about Gnome configurability, or lack thereof. But that's a whole different mess.


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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:41 +0530

Hello,

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Jim Jackson wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, brad wrote:
> >> What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?
> >
> > No true geek will admit to using a distro. :-)
> >
> >> And Why?
> >
> > Linus doesn't! :-)
> 
> Actually he does, though if I remember correctly in an interview, he said he 
> couldn't care less about the distro as long as it didn't stop him working the 
> way he wanted to and kept his work platform going.

I should have have said: "No true geek will answer that question --- Linus won't."

Linus has always said that he will try to keep his remarks distro agnostic as he does not want any one distro's site to get slash-dotted. ;-)

Regards,

Kapil. --


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Lew Pitcher [lew.pitcher at digitalfreehold.ca]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:30:09 -0400

On March 24, 2008 21:50:29 brad wrote:

> Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.

Hello, right back at you :-)

> What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?

On March 24, 2008 21:50:29 brad wrote:

> Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.

Hello, right back at you :-)

> What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro?

Like most questions of this nature, this one can only really be answered with "it depends".

I consider myself a serious Linux geek. I run Slackware on my server and on my desktop machine. I run Ubuntu (Kubuntu, actually) on my laptops. Before I retired, I ran a variety of other distributions on boxes at work. You see, even though I am a "serious Linux geek", my choice of distro depends on what I want to do with it.

> And Why?

Slackware, because I like to tinker

(K)Ubuntu, because I want a simple, ready-made, capable system

TomsRtBt, because I want a rescue disk

RHES and Suse, because I get corporate support

Lew Pitcher

-- 
Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576
http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/   | GPG public key available by request
---------      Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.          ------


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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:45:42 +0000

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: brad <[email protected]>
Date: 25 Mar 2008 19:44
Subject: Re: [TAG] Linux
To: Thomas Adam <[email protected]>

cool!! i hadn't heard of that one yet!

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 01:52 +0000, Thomas Adam wrote: > On 25/03/2008, brad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello - A real general question for you linux pros. > > > > What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro? > > tomsrtbt. > > > And Why? > > The name's cool. > > -- Thomas Adam


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René Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:01:46 +0100

On Mar 25, 2008 at 1945 +0000, Thomas Adam appeared and said:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: brad <[email protected]>
> Date: 25 Mar 2008 19:44
> Subject: Re: [TAG] Linux
> To: Thomas Adam <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> cool!!  i hadn't heard of that one yet!

Well, what about GRML (www.grml.org) then? As the name implies, its target audience are sysadmins (among others).

Best, Ren?, who uses Debian, GRML and other unspeakable evils.


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Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]


Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:18:31 -0700

----- Forwarded message from brad <[email protected]> -----

From: brad <[email protected]>
To: Rick Moen <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:02:09 -0700
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0
Subject: Re: [TAG] Linux
That's quite the signature dude. I guess I should've asked which set-up was preferable for learning to use linux, rather than the standard "duh, which is the best of the best of the best"

Thanks - I'll keep to Debian for now.

-----Original Message-----

From: Rick Moen <[email protected]>
To: brad <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TAG] Linux
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:37:41 -0700
Quoting brad ([email protected]):

> Hello  -  A real general question for you linux pros.

But then you didn't ask about any generals, at all. I was, as Bridget Jones might have said, v. disappointed.

----- End forwarded message -----


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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]


Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:14:40 +0530

Hello,

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rick Moen wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from brad <[email protected]> -----
> 
> From: brad <[email protected]>
> To: Rick Moen <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:02:09 -0700
> Subject: Re: [TAG] Linux
> 
> That's quite the signature dude.
> I guess I should've asked which set-up was preferable for learning to
> use linux, rather than the standard "duh, which is the best of the best
> of the best"
The best setup for learning to use linux:
	1. Have one screen open on man pages/info pages
	2. Have one screen open on /usr/share/doc/
	3. Have one screen open on tldp.org
	4. Have one screen open on LG (!)
	5. Start reading/playing/hacking
DONT: Login as root except to install packages.
DO: Ignore the above injunction as soon as you feel that breaking your
system and fixing it are part of step 5.
 
If you use Debian, then 1/2/3 can be combined/enhanced by installing
 
	dwww, dpkg-www, doc-linux-((text)|(html))
 
and a web browser.

There must be something similar for other distros. Perhaps there should be a move to create lsb-doc[1]!

Regards,

Kapil.

[1] LSB stands for Linux Standards Base which describes how different distributions should keep things compatible/equivalent to other distributions. --


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