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I've been a RedHat/Fedora user for a long long time, since RedHat 3 I think, and feel quite ok with it.
I've even run a few servers based on Red Hat Enterprise for more than three years when I had a web hosting business with more than five hundred domains and a lot of clients. Now I run a VPS based on CentOS 4.3, a Red Hat Enterprise cousin.
But make no mistake, even if I've had my share or rpm, yum and a few GUI based applications I'm all for source compiling and the command line.
Now I'd like to add a second Linux distribution under my wing, not for replacing my loyal Fedora desktops and CentOS server but because I'm a good 'ol geek who needs to explore.
I'll be using an Intel P4 HT box with 1Gb RAM.
I have a few friends in the Debian community and I like the way the project is run. Debian is certainly my first choice for a second distro.
My second option is Slackware, which I understand is geared to the most hardcore Linux dudes out there.
Of course I know it all depends on what I need Linux for, well, I need it for quite a lot, let's see:
- Web development: the usual vi editing for HTML, PHP, CSS and Javascript. Soon I'll start playing with some frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django and obviously I need Apache and a RDBMS, currently MySQL.
- Graphics design: Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus.
- Some 3D fun with Blender.
- This is quite standard: the usual Firefox, Thunderbird, MP3 player and OpenOffice pack.
- When Mento Gamba wants to take a walk the Second Life client on Linux needs to run.
- This is very important: I need my Wacom Graphire 3 tablet working right, including pressure sensitivity. I can't live without that.
- I run a dual head monitor setup and my graphics card is based on an ATI x700 chipset.
- A couple of applications under Wine: Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (just for testing please, don't give me that look!) and Adobe Flash 8.
- And I'll be playing with some J2EE soon too.
What Linux distribution would you recommend as my second one?
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I use gentoo & Ubuntu...
If you don't mind the command line, gentoo is kind of fun and always stays up to date. For an easy-to-use, easy-to-setup system, Ubuntu is good too. I use both.
Also, I've emailed you about possibly GPLing your contributions to the PHPNuke->Drupal script so that I can release my additions to it. The other two authors have already GPL'd their stuff. Can you do the same?
Thanks,
W
I should add..
That I run a dual-head (nVidia) desktop system w/gentoo. I don't hav ea wacom tablet, but if there's a driver for it for linux, I'm sure you could get it working in any distrib...
And I run wine too...
W
Yep, Gentoo is also in my list
Yesterday I was talking with some friends and some of them also told me about Gentoo.
After posting this article I decided to go with Debian, first Sarge (stable) but then moved to Etch (testing) and I really like it.
But I will try other distros, I'm thinking on Slackware and Gentoo, as soon as I get some hard drive space. I'm wondering how many distros a PC with four hard drives can handle and it would be ok with GRUB.
About the PHPNuke to Drupal migration code, I just changed a few lines of it, I wasn't the original author, and I think it was already GPL, so my code is also GPL. Feel free to use it, modify it and share it. Thanks for asking anyway!
Alexis Bellido
Gentoo :D
Gentoo :D