Is there a Linux distro with the solid build of Debian, well-roundedness of Fedora, and maturity of Slackware?

4 Comments

1. hawklord says:

   24. May 2011 at 19:24

   mandriva is solid, i’ve been using it for over 5 years,
   only failed twice – once through me messing with grub and once through my vid card failing – both easily fixed,

   mandriva uses all the packages fedora does – as mandriva is based on redhat, although there are extra packages via plf and proprietary drivers,

   mature – mandriva’s base was redhat 5.1 in 1998, but its now a totally separate distribution – what more can be said,

   just as a note – ubuntu was first released in 2004
2. Offensive Technician says:

   24. May 2011 at 19:24

   Ubuntu?
3. Mo D says:

   24. May 2011 at 19:24

   Red Hat Enterprise. You pay for the license and it’s worth it since it’s supported by a company with long term stable enterprise experience.
4. jplatt39 says:

   24. May 2011 at 19:24

   If you have experienced all of them, then you should certainly be able to make your own. In point of fact, it’s not as difficult as it may seem because what a distro is may vary. If you are running slackware there are ways to get GNOME including a distribution with it and a jigdo script which will download and compile it. I run slackware and couldn’t live without my VLC and inkscape — neither of which is in the repositories — but there is always slackbuild.org. Any Linux distro can be customized to an extent which M$ and Apple would try to wreck your computer for doing with their distros. Furthermore, the last time I could STAND Debian it was because of wajig which uses a different update algorithm from Synaptic, etc. And if you know what you are looking for, Debian is pretty well rounded.