On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:32 +0000, Laurie Brown wrote:
I'll echo earlier comments that Linus, is Linux, is Linux aside from the bundling. For a beginner I still think SuSE is the best, but here we use Gentoo exclusively. I could never really get on with Debian, for all its plus-points. The latest release of Gentoo even has a graphical installer!
I've been trying out Gentoo 2006.0 since it came out, and it's working very well. I even tried the graphical installer on one of my mini-itx boxes. Using the (sill masked) Xorg 7.0 I've managed to do two things I never got working before: Hardware acceleration for openGL AND hardware decodeing of mpeg2 for DVD viewing. Playing DVDs takes about 5% CPU load (I did have to up the timer interrupt to 1000Hz to get xxmc to work though).
So I would still say SuSE is best for linux newbies and experience users who want a box to USE (rather than tinker with).
Cheers, Laurie.