LINUX which flavours

[daveashton]

Hi

We are now heavely involved with NDS8 (www.nds8.co.uk) and would hence like a none biased view on which flavour of linux will have the greatest market market share.

Heads of IT seem to have little preference and seem to go more on what aplications have been developed so no help there.

What would your choice be and why and are killer apps now hitting the market?

[adrianjohnson]

The three biggest Linux distributions are:-

1. Red Hat (now called Fedora).
2. SuSE - now owned by Novell.
3. Mandrake

There are others, but most are mainly developed by enthusiasts. My personal favourite is Mandrake, as you get a lot more with it, though you might want Suse as they are owned by Novell.

[Ozzy]

Just my 2pc worth - I have used SuSE, Slackware and Mandrake all as my desktop operating system.
I now purely use Slackware on servers and Mandrake as my desktop OS.

Slackware is much cleaner for a server so less bugs, but to a novice harder to administer. Mandrake is great for an IS as comes with lots of tools, applications and drivers.

[K_P_Martin]

Hi

SuSe is the biggest distro in europe and their tech support is very good especially as they now have Novell behind them.


Regards


Kev

[K_P_Martin]

Hi

SuSe is the biggest distro in europe and their tech support is very good especially as they now have Novell behind them.


Regards


Kev

[vigo]

I love gentoo, the power you get with a completly custom-compiled system is amazing. Portage rocks :-) Definately not for the Linux novice thou!

SuSe would probably be my prefered distrubtion for general desktop use, with gentoo for servers.

[Ozzy]

I love the ol' flavour of Linux discussions. Its a bit like "Cars'v'Bikes" and "North'v'South" on mailing lists ;)