On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 at 01:56:01PM +0000, Russell Gadd wrote:
> I am trying to decide on a distribution to use for my home PC and would
> welcome comments on the following.
>
> My natural choice would be Debian Etch. However, although it is by no means
> the only package I want to run, a major problem is that I need to run
> Gnucash version 2.2 so as to use the data files I have set up in Windows and
> the version in Etch is only 2.0 which is incompatible. So I am looking at
> present at 3 choices:
How long is a piece of string?
I would suggest if you are most familiar with Debian then stick
with it. Lenny isn't bad at all, I run it and it's fine, but
stable may give you a stronger feeling of comfort. The backports
are a good way of getting the odd new appliction into a stable
Debian.
Round here if you run any debian you will probably find help, a
lot of people run Debian or some flavour of Debian - Ubuntu is
popular. However if you have a local guru who does house visits
then pick wheat ever they run, life will be easier for both of
you.
Finally there is lost of support on the net for the popular
distros, Fedora/Ubuntu et al., though it's not always correct.
I'm a pragmatist, as long as you don't pick a wierd, specialised
or dead distro, they are all pretty good thesedays. What matters
when you are starting is the help you can get, who you know and
what you already know. I don't believe the actual distro matters
per se.
You already mentioned Debian/Ubuntu, both are popular round here,
I'd say that's your solution. Debian Etch if you want to feel
secure with no unexpected surprises, or an Ubuntu LTS if you feel
like you like brown. Either will work fine.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
-- anon
