On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 13:36:13 +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Ketil,
Monday, November 13, 2006, 10:45:59 AM, you wrote:
My friend offered me 3 variants: SuSe, Fedora Core 5, free variant of RedHat (i can't remember its name, may be Ubuntu?) CentOS, perhaps? It is usually good advice to choose whatever your friends are using,
thanks to everyone who answered my question!
as you say, FC and CentOS are not ideal for me. Gentoo is too good for me, it is for unix geeks while i just don't have resources to play one more Game. i think that i will install it on my next box
of remaining, Ubuntu has widest support here while SuSe is favourite of my friend. one thing that i like in suse is that it uses the same RPMs as RedHat and RPMs is widely used for packaging software available via internet. Is Ubuntu supports RPMs too?
I think it's widely regarded as a Bad Idea to mix packages between distributions. I would suggest Ubuntu (or Debian Sid if you are interested in getting newer versions of GHC). I think you'd find it difficult to find software that wasn't already in Ubuntu's multiverse repository. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. `In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.' -- The Book getting all nostalgic.