[Cialug] Well "put together" Linux distros?

Crouse crouse at usalug.net
Sat May 12 19:47:19 CDT 2012


Give Archlinux a try.

Not for newbies,  but I've been using it for years after distro
hopping for years.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:03 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012, Josh More wrote:
>
>> OpenSUSE used to be a very well put together distro. The engineering
>> on it was excellent.
>>
> Still is, .. been using it every day since 11.1 with a number of 'high
> end' installations - e.g. 40T systems. SuSE was an easy choice as CentOS
> did not support GPT at the time.
>
>> It weakened a bit under Novell's "leadership".  I've not tried it
>> since it became an Attachmate deal.
>>
> Some development aspects may have slown down a bit, especially when Ximian
> left the fold, however the core engineering has always been first rate.
>
> Besides, being based in Europe, they are much farther removed from the DRM
> fanatics <g>!
>
>        Lee
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