Re: [Lilux-info] enquery.

On Thursday 30 December 2004 16:45, pierre wrote: For all tasks: desktop: web browsing, mail, LaTeX, online banking, development, ... server: apache/php, sendmail/mailman, dns, samba, ..., cf LLL I very rarely boot into windows (mostly for testing LLL system), and when I do, it's most often in a vmware/qemu environment... I've got Linux installed: 1. On my desktop at home 2. On my desktop at work 3. On my laptop 1. My home desktop and my laptop have SuSE 9.2, 2. At work I use Fedora Core II. 3. I've got a Knoppix CD for demo'ing purposes or for use on computers which do not yet have Linux installed. SuSE ==> as a kernel developer, I regularly got free installation CD's from SuSE. At the time, SuSE had a packaging structure which was very similar to the distribution I used before (SLS), and was very complete (for a long time, SuSE had the biggest collection of applications). Some of this is no longer true (package format, ...), but in the meantime, I've become so familiar with it that I stuck with it (for my home systems). Fedora/Redhat ==> is the distribution that my employer recommends Knoppix ==> is the best known "live CD" distribution, and, AFAIK, supports more hardware than SuSE's and RedHat's Live CDs. I've occasionnally experimented with Mandrake, however these experiments didn't leave a favorable impression (unreliability due to inclusion of alpha/beta software, sometimes excessive KDE customization). I must admit, though, that these unfavorable impressions were some time ago, so maybe they've improved with their more recent versions. Before knowing SuSE, I used SLS ("Softlanding Systems") which is the predecessor of Slackware. Since January 1993. Alain