[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Colm Buckley]

On 28 Jun 2005, at 20:30, Simon Kenyon wrote:

> i didn't feel i needed to justify my choice of distribution but i  
> was pointing out that he was talking rubbish
>
> for what it is worth, the three "leading" distributions that i come  
> across in my travels are fedora, debian and ubuntu

So you're going to point out the flaws in each, for the purpose of  
comparison with Gentoo.  Okay, that's a good tactic.

> ubuntu is a modern debian (which would appear to be imploding)

An unsubstantiated assertion that Debian is "imploding" is all it  
takes to dismiss both Ubuntu and Debian?

> the number of problems that users (on the mailing lists that i  
> frequent) of  fedora have (albeit new users of linux) is staggering.

I have never argued in favour of Fedora.  What mailing lists do you  
frequent?

> gentoo is the only distribution that i have found which doesn't  
> subject the user to dependency hell while allowing them to remain  
> current. i've only come unstuck once and a bit of googling soon  
> fixed that.

How many more times do I have to say "Ubuntu"?

     Colm

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