[lug] new distro

[David Morris]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:55:36PM +0000, j davis wrote:
> Hello,
>  So after using Redhat8 i want to go back to 7.3....but if 8 is
> the future of redhat i want to get out now. Could someone suggest a Linux
> that is stright regular linux That has a nice update and package manager.
> How is suse and debian. Do you suse and debian users have a hard time
> getting stuff to work that works out of the box in rh? I dont mind 
> re-lerning
> some stuff...but my next distro, i would like to think i can use it 5 or 10
> years before the ultimate power corrupts it. Maybe rh8 was just what United 
> Linux
> needed.....Where do recovering RedHat users go next?

I can only second Timothy's support for Debian....it is a
wonderful distribution that is far easier to use in most
every way than RedHat.  And for all those that tout the
benefits of other package management systems than apt-get, I
can only guess they haven't tried apt-get as I have yet to
find a single comparison (objective or otherwise) that could
truthfully say there is a better package mangement system
than apt-get.

--David