[NTLUG:Discuss] Evil 2.96 continued...

[Will Senn]

Chris and Steve went into considerable detail concerning
the evil 2.96...
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considerable detail
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Thanks guys for a concise and lucid description of the
situation.  I agree that the move as you have described
it is not a particularly wise one if stability and
interoperability are prominent goals.  I don't know if
it is wise from a business perspective - time will tell.

--begin rant--
I stand in amazement at the complexity involved in choosing
a linux distribution.  Here, I had finally settled down
to liking Redhat, because it is easy to setup and with the
7.1 release pretty easy to secure.  I wish things like this
would just go away.  I want to 'pick' a distro and it wind
up being the 'one'.  Is that to much to ask? I like Caldera,
it is stable, not to complex and has a good tech support
group, but it is too far behind the edge. I like Debian,
it is really easy to maintain - but it is absolute hell to
setup.  I like Slackware,  but I wonder if it'll still
be around in 2 years. I like Mandrake, but it is too far out
on the edge, seems flaky.  I don't like Suse, way too much
stuff, all crammed in there...  In the non-linux world I like
FreeBSD but that damn little demon annoys me. M$ WinX is a
major scam.

Redhat has been the best so far except that it sucks on the
compiler front.
--end rant--

What's a person to do? What do y'all think, is there a
killer linux distro?


Will