Trevor Hemsley
2006-09-28 21:13:47 UTC
Hi guys
I'm looking for a new distribution to install on a machine. I'm currently
running SuSE 9.1 Pro on one of my machines and as that's come to the end of its
lifetime (no more patches), I'm about to re-install on a different machine then
migrate all my data over to the new machine. Picking the distribution to use on
the new machine is the question.
Background: I've used Linux since Redhat 4.0, gave up on Redhat when 5.0 came
out and was a complete turkey, switched to SuSE at the time and stayed with them
pretty much since then. The last SuSE I've used in anger is 9.1 but I have 9.2,
9.3 and am not keen on some of the direction it's taken since the Novell buyout.
I also have the 10 and 10.1 DVDs and would use 10.1 if I can't find anything
else better.
I'm the sysadmin for one SLES9 64 bit and 9 RHEL3 machines at work, have Fedora
Core 4 installed on my work laptop. I've also got Gentoo 2006 installed on a
machine here at home and initially I liked that - I still think the idea is good
but since I've been running it, it's nuked itself at least twice during an
'emerge --sync/--update world' run and I'm looking for something easier to
maintain than this (I spend 8 hours a day coercing machines to do what they're
supposed to do at work so want something a little easier at home!).
So... I want something rpm based, that gets automatic and timely security
patches and is low maintenance. A good set of admin tools would be useful. I
really want something that just works (tm). The target machine is a Shuttle
SB51G, socket 478 P4 3GHz with 1GB RAM and a 160GB IDE drive, DVD+-RW, ATI
Radeon 9200, Terratec Aureon (CMedia 8738) soundcard. For most of what I do, I
use the command line only but this machine is likely to see more use of X than
before - running Azureus, Seamonkey, Audacity, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, postfix
and Samba (as both client and server) - that lot accounts for about 90+% of what
I'll be using it for. No games so 3D graphics etc is not required (or wanted!).
It does need to interoperate with my other machines - 1 Windoze, 2 OS/2, 1
Gentoo hence the Samba requirement.
Distributions so far on my radar screen: SuSE 10.1, FC5, er, that's it. More
choices required - hence this post. Suggestions please?
I'm looking for a new distribution to install on a machine. I'm currently
running SuSE 9.1 Pro on one of my machines and as that's come to the end of its
lifetime (no more patches), I'm about to re-install on a different machine then
migrate all my data over to the new machine. Picking the distribution to use on
the new machine is the question.
Background: I've used Linux since Redhat 4.0, gave up on Redhat when 5.0 came
out and was a complete turkey, switched to SuSE at the time and stayed with them
pretty much since then. The last SuSE I've used in anger is 9.1 but I have 9.2,
9.3 and am not keen on some of the direction it's taken since the Novell buyout.
I also have the 10 and 10.1 DVDs and would use 10.1 if I can't find anything
else better.
I'm the sysadmin for one SLES9 64 bit and 9 RHEL3 machines at work, have Fedora
Core 4 installed on my work laptop. I've also got Gentoo 2006 installed on a
machine here at home and initially I liked that - I still think the idea is good
but since I've been running it, it's nuked itself at least twice during an
'emerge --sync/--update world' run and I'm looking for something easier to
maintain than this (I spend 8 hours a day coercing machines to do what they're
supposed to do at work so want something a little easier at home!).
So... I want something rpm based, that gets automatic and timely security
patches and is low maintenance. A good set of admin tools would be useful. I
really want something that just works (tm). The target machine is a Shuttle
SB51G, socket 478 P4 3GHz with 1GB RAM and a 160GB IDE drive, DVD+-RW, ATI
Radeon 9200, Terratec Aureon (CMedia 8738) soundcard. For most of what I do, I
use the command line only but this machine is likely to see more use of X than
before - running Azureus, Seamonkey, Audacity, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, postfix
and Samba (as both client and server) - that lot accounts for about 90+% of what
I'll be using it for. No games so 3D graphics etc is not required (or wanted!).
It does need to interoperate with my other machines - 1 Windoze, 2 OS/2, 1
Gentoo hence the Samba requirement.
Distributions so far on my radar screen: SuSE 10.1, FC5, er, that's it. More
choices required - hence this post. Suggestions please?
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com