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15 June 2005

best linx distro for lazy expert? no way am i wasting an askme question with this, so you lot will have to do instead. [mi]

post by: andrew cooke at: 10:07 | 6 comments

i am fed up with debian. i'm fed up with linux generally, but need to run something on my firewall/mail machine and can't afford a mac.

so what's the easiest distro that can also be used for doing "admin" things? it needs to upgrade easily/incrementally and just work.

should i go back to suse?

thanks.

posted by andrew cooke 15 June | 10:07

I use Linux for a test bed so I run it in virtual machines. I like SUSE and DSL.

posted by arse_hat 15 June | 11:53

thx. i'm downloading the suse iso image now. dsl looks neat - i really need to move forwards a decade or so and buy a memory dongle thing.

posted by andrew cooke 15 June | 12:21

I've been looking at Gentoo, Ubuntu, and the recent VidaLinux.

posted by stilicho 16 June | 01:47

FreeBSD must be mentioned ;)

posted by gren 18 June | 07:04

oh, for a firewall, you'd wanna use OpenBSD with some pf and altq lovin'

posted by gren 18 June | 07:05

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