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Edwin David Latham wrote:
> 
> Subject: Choosing a Distribution
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I've been lurking here for a while now, to get some info before
> building a linux box. While there've been some interesting posts
> from time to time, I haven't yet been able to choose a linux
> distribution. Not that there's any great rush; I haven't got
> the hardware yet.
> 
> I've also been buying books: "Using Linux" (Slackware 3.0) by
> Tacket and Gunter and "The Linux Kernel Book" (Red Hat 5.0) by
> Card, Dumas and Mevel; plus some other stuff; but even more so
> than the ng, these don't offer the comparative info I'd like
> to see, which is some informed compare-and-contrast articles
> on the distributions that interest me; namely Caldera, Debian,
> Red Hat and Slackware (others too, but those four in particular).
> 
> My main concerns are:
> 
>     Stability (crash-proofing);
> 
>     Reliability (code correctness);
> 
>     Maintenance requirements (does it need a lot of attention?);
> 
>     Upgradability;
> 
>     Hackability.
> 
> Can anyone oblige?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ned

Go for Debian. I started on RedPhat and it's package management / pm
tools really
are pathetic next to Debians. Overall I have found Debian to be a much
better
Distribution. However I have also heard that SuSe is very well put
togehter

HeTTaR
M&D Eaton
hettar@uq.net.au