OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Brad Parker]

"Hans Franke" wrote:
>
>Hmm. To me Linux is just a 'Me-Too' x86 Unix ripoff. No real new
>development here. And the same is ture for the desktop side. KDE
>and Gnome are rather straight steal from Windoze.

mmm.  please don't tell that to any of my customers who are running
linux on powerpc, arm, mips, dm642, etc... chips :-)

and, when you look at the performance of 2.6 kernels it's pretty damn
good and (my opinion) scales better than pretty much everything other
than solaris.

2.4 is a pig, I'll give you that, and has big vm issues, but 2.6 is a
huge improvement.

NT still a lot of vm and scaling issues as do most *nix kernels (with
the exception of solaris).

I'm not sure i'd call linux a unix ripoff anymore.  That was true at one
time but not anymore.

and don't get me started on os x.  i've been gettting hard crashes (i.e.
power cycle required) on a daily basis running 64 bit apps on my g5
imac...  I love the 'new mac' but there's still work to be done there.

-brad