I haven't touched anything Linux since about '97 and I am looking to set a box up. So what's the skivvy on kernels/distributions these days? Anyone with experience on some of the following, please chime in and drop a dime on the subject: Fedora/RedHat Gentoo Knoppix Stampede FreeBSD Mandrake Lycoris A compare/contrast would be sweet.
/me points up at the linux sub-forum. personally i use mandrake - 10.0 on my lappy and 10.1 on my 2nd hdd on my gaming box. easy, kinda does what i want it to, and has cool built-in games. so i only run linux for breakout, sue me.
Running Mandrake 10.0 on my main machine at home, and a few servers at work. Never had the need for anything else, actually. Sorry Sc0rian, I just formatted the Suse box to install Mandrake (actually it is because it was a testing server and our admin quit without giving us passwords for root)
Most recently, I've been dealing with Gentoo, Knoppix, Fedora, and Suse. Aggreed with whoever said portage is awesome - it's the only reason I put up with the day long install on my home pc's. Knoppix, I've mostly only dealt with at work - we've got a custom Knoppix cd that has partimage and we use it to reload pc's from images on one of our servers. Fedora is alright, easy to install but that's all I can really say about it. Nothing else in Fedora really stands out to me. Suse is pretty nice and has the YaST installer. #yast2 install iftop and it does it's thing and installs much like portage(iftop is a cool package btw, has a graphical representation of trafic on network interfaces. We've been having fun with this one at work...)
