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I was quite impressed! When I took the test, the program indicated that Gentoo would be the best distribution for me. That's pretty good since I use Gentoo at home and at work, almost exclusively. I am using Suse for the first time since it is specified by one of our vendors. In the past, I've used RedHat, Slackware, Mandrake, Knoppix, Yellow Dog, and Caldera. The other neat thing was that the program indicated that my second choice would be Slackware, which is the first distro that I ever used! I was intrigued by the fact that the program also indicated why it thought a given distro would be less than optimum for me. In the case of Gentoo, it indicated the lack of application library would make it less than optimum. However, I have to take issue with the lack of applications. Anyway, here is a single point sample that indicates that your program works well. Mike Diehl. On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:47, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:11, Dick Turpin wrote:
Hi All
Every Forum and mailing list gets the same question from potential Linux users every now and again "Which one should I use?" they generally get inundated with the members personal choice rather than the one suited to them.
Some of you may have seen this before but there is a site that hosts a test which, based on your answers, will give you the Linux Distributions that are best suited to you I've been given permission to link to it check it out at my site under the heading Linux Chooser http://cannon-linux.co.uk/my-linux-stuff.html?Itemid=27
That's not too bad. A few observations:
It would be nice to be able to back up and change some of your answers.
As is typical with this sort of approach, if you answers don't fit the options offered (e.g., I run a workstation that also functions as a server), you may not get optimum recommendations.
I liked the offer to teach me about alternate package management schemes. I'm aware of the Debian system, of course, but know nothing about it. Now I have a Web page open that will give me some basic information about it.
Anyway, from my first pass through the advisor, I was recommended these three distributions:
- Debian - OpenSuSE (sic) - Mandriva
-- Regards Dick Turpin
Randall Schulz
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