Re: [Sheflug] Religion.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

>  I was probably not here when you guys had the manditory
> SUSE/RedHat/Debian/Slackware/etc war/crusade/rant...

We've kind of had a few, not any proper ones though, by my recollection?

>  So, just what is so good (and bad) about everyone's chosen distro?

a) Mine is fantastic
b) Yours stinks.

I think that's all the points covered ;))) Various specialisations of the
above arguments are also allowable (apt is great, rpm stinks is common among
Debheads, for example).

>  Noodles is a P75 with a stonking 12Mb of RAM, and about 800Mb across 2
> drives. It wants your chosen distro. Oh, yes.
>  Noodles does sod all. Well, it runs a distributed.net client and has
> managed to stay up for 100 days (had to move home, or it would have been
> longer), and gets ssh'd to now and again so I can laugh at the uptime
> and waggle my finger at any Windows machine :-)
>
>  Currently, debian seems to be in the lead, if I'm not to stick with
> RH6.2 - because they've got that fancy swirly logo thingy.

I don't suppose your choice could at all be influenced by the apps you're
going to run on it? Heaven forfend... ;)) If all it does is burn processor
cycles running dist.net, get Tomsrtbt, put that on (it'll take five minutes)
and there you have it, a working system. If it gets used as a masq client,
or something, put Stormix on and feel safe at night. If you want something
easily maintainable, put SuSE on it (Sheflug always seems to have the latest
disks for SuSE at least). If you want something you know, put Redhat on it.
To be honest, it doesn't really matter.

Cheers,

Alex.

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