[Cialug] Well "put together" Linux distros?

[Josh More]

OpenSUSE used to be a very well put together distro. The engineering
on it was excellent.

It weakened a bit under Novell's "leadership".  I've not tried it
since it became an Attachmate deal.

It did do some symlink chaining, but I never found that to be excessive.

-Josh


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch
<jakllsch at kollasch.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:29:41PM -0500, Nicolai wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a clean, light, and well "put together" Linux distro that
>> doesn't change its startup scripts, paths, and so on.  Something stable
>> in that regard.  Very few symlinks and no symlink chains.
>>
>> I've played with Debian but am definitely open to others.
>>
>> Ubuntu should be at the opposite end of the spectrum.  What do you
>> recommend and why?
>
> While I don't find Debian without it's faults, I find that it's a
> somewhat well balanced mix of functionality and stability.
> Of popular GNU/Linux distributions, I've found Debian least
> frustrating.
>
> I haven't tried Slackware, and haven't used Gentoo recently, but they
> may be distributions to investigate too.
>
>        Jonathan Kollasch
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