On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 18:56 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I only say it is not for not-so-experienced Linux users like me. A workhorse
> does not mean it is good for me. There are many workhorses (perhaps
> Solaris is one of them) out there.
> 
> I understand Linux people take pride in their preferred distributions. But I
> think all the major distributions have their strong points. Slackware is
> still alive, so it must have some good reasons. But I will stay with the
> more popular distributions.

That is exactly the reason I run only redhat based distros: the more
popular it is, the more likely the problem on your screen has been seen
by someone else.

Aside from that, the company I work for runs redhat exclusively, so it's
in my best interest to run the same at home.

At the moment I run FC4 and FC3 at home, and I just recently converted
my desktop machine at work from WinXP to FC4 (shh, don't tell IT...). I
also manage a few Redhat Enterprise machines, and a farm of Redhat 7.3
machines.

There is NO doubt that Redhat can be "prickly", and there's the Linux
way of doing things, and then the Redhat way of doing things... However,
once you get used to the particulars of a certain distro of linux things
get much easier.

Note I'm not saying DON'T try other distros, only that there is some
logic in starting off with one of the most popular, despite the small
amount of "locking in" that learning a Redhat distro will do to you.

TTYL

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