[PLUG] QUick Reccomendation

Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) Rob.Anderson at nike.com
Wed Dec 1 22:46:38 UTC 2004


> Okay, this is not intended to start a distro war.
> I use Suse 9 and Redhat 7.3 and Suse 7.
> I want to try Fedora core and Redhat's last*Free* distro.
> 
> What I want to know is if there are security issues to avoid with any
> of the present distros or the older distros I'm interested in( Suse
> 8.1, Fedora Core, Redhat 9.1, etc) and I'd like to know which distro
> the plug group has found to be:
> 
> a) easy to install
> b) simple to work from both command and GUI
> c) available as ISO
> d) Useable as both server ware and desktop ware
> e)Full featured
> f) Free

I recommend Fedora. I recently made a half-assed effort to install debian and the installer did not recognize my hard drive. This lead me to the conclusion that the install process was not easy enough (for me anyway).

-Rob Anderson




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