On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:11:39 -0500, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote: > What you need to consider Patrick is where is your perferred balance > of ease of use vs functionality. Distributions like RedHat/Fedora > include lots of tools that are specific to Red Hat and Fedora for > easing the most common task such as configurint hardware, your > Xserver, printers, etc...where as Debian and Gentoo tend to lean more > tward the expectation that the user knows how to do some configuration > on their own, thus they tend to just provide some resonable defaults > for software and not work too heavly on nice GUI based configuration > tools. > > IMHO, there are some issues that deserve huge flame wars. Linux > distributions aren't one of those isses. :) Thanks for the "big picture", Andy. I'm leaning toward either Debian or Gentoo because of the raw power of the distros (massively big if you want and eminently configurable) and the fact that I want to learn Linux more and better. I wasn't hoping for or even expecting a flame war, given the type of users on this list, but I did want more information before I choose a new distro. And so far, every response has given me just that. -Patrick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list