I guess I should define playing! I am very happy with Suse, and switched to it from Mandrake (after that whole Linux Format bad cd fiasco). I am wanting to learn more about Linux in general, and get more comfortable with NONRPM based distro's. The reasons for my three choices were Gentoo makes me learn more about Linux's base (how to do things from scratch) and gives me experience with another "package manager" (emerge). Knoppix and Ubuntu teaches me about debian and apt. I am not comfortable enough now to switch from one to another, and would eventually like to be. I've been on Suse since 9.0 (just went 10) and it works and is stable, the only reason I still have a Windows machine is for the games.
On 11/15/05, lerninlinux@comcast.net
wrote: I have Suse 10 installed, and have a secondary machine I was looking to install another distro for playing/learning. What are your other used distro's?
I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.
TIA
Ubuntu is very easy to install and get it working. If you need to have easy setup of a good workstation, go for it. I'm not sure about "playing" with it :)
If you really want to try to grasp "linux", what is where, how the stuff compiles, etc., you may go with Gentoo, or Linux from Scratch. Now, this is a "playing" :)
Cheers Sunny
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
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