Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 5, 2003 @03:59PM from the invited-abuse dept.

FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public consumption over at www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And Scorchen writes "YOPER has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is the their first stable release." Here's the announcment. The website claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages."

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Re:Nothing different by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-05 16:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Not trolling, but seriously, until a LOT more apps are ported to Linux, stick with Windows (XP is good enough). Other recommendations for FREE linuxes:

Redhat -> Looks the best, has best support, compromises between simplicity and difficulty at the same time. (or wait and see what mdk 9.1 brings)

Debian -> Server, or if you're more adventurous. Excellent maintenance once you have it setup

Gentoo -> If you're too adventurous and have too much time to kill, but will pay in optimized speeds.

I would still stick to windows for my desktop work. Only Xandros (39 bucks) and Redhat (somewhat) come close to being a desktop.