[Jay D. Dyson]

Whew. I can't wait for the Microsoft shills to show up (I won't name any names, but his initials are GOLDEN EAGLE). Then this thread will really take on a life of its own.

;)

FYI: I'd have to say that Slackware Linux works the best overall. And I've worked with Solaris 1.1 through 9 (SPARC and Intel editions after 2.6), the *BSD distros, and everything from Debian through Red Hat.

Of course, I'm preferential to the hardened OS's such as Immunix, Bastille Linux and OpenBSD. Trusted Solaris was hard to warm up to, though...

-Jay

[amigatec]

Whew. I can't wait for the Microsoft shills to show up (I won't name any names, but his initials are GOLDEN EAGLE). Then this thread will really take on a life of its own.

I don't reply to ANYTHING the Brass Buzzard says, he has shown his stupidity many times here. The Buzzard is a proven liar and BS artist.

[scripter]

I thought HPUX got a little short changed in the article. I'm not much of an AIX fan and prefer HPUX 11.11 (very sturdy) over anything else, then Solaris 8 (not that familiar with Solaris 9). Tru64 was rock solid as well but I didn't see a future getting to know it.

I setup a startup company on Redhat Linux (6.x) four years ago and it's still running quite well, although I updated some systems to Mandrake 8.1 when it came out. They're all still running quite well, with some systems running over a year before I reboot them for the heck of it.

Slackware Linux

I'll have to check that out.

[adam_az]

I first used Slack when the only distribution was on hardware specific (down to the disk controller!) floppy install sets.

It's great - Linux kernel, BSD Userland - but Slack lacks good configuration and package management tools, and they are kind of slow to release patches and updates.

A few of my friends like Gentoo Linux for that reason - plus it's a source-distribution like the BSD's which means that you can rebuild the entire source tree from scratch.