Isam Bayazidi’s Blog

I admit that I hadn’t been a real loyal user of any Linux Distro. I had been loyal to Linux in general. I had been using Linux for 7 years now I think.. and the distros that I used for more than 6 months include (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Corel, Fedora, Slack, I-can’t-remember-if-there-is-more ). Of course because I always have /home in a separate partition (in fact in a separate drive) changing distros was like changing underwear, do it was mostly transparent for a GUI user.

In the beginning of last year I for introduced to Gentoo, and it was about the same time I got DSL at home. Gentoo sounded perfect to me. As it had thousands of programs that are ‘one command away’ to install, and it built programs in your system being highly optimized, and so. After 9 months of using Gentoo, I started to feel that the time I spend compiling stuff all the time is sometimes more than the time I spend using the programs that I compile (except X, KDE, Mozilla and so). So I was fed up, and I made the leap to Debian, which had been a very happy one.

Currently my PC at home runs Debian, the beauty of Debian is it’s Package management system which I think is un-matched. the DEB package files are designed beautifully, and the deb tools make it a real pleasure to update and install programs. Here at Work I use Fedora Core 2. I can assure you that the only thing that kept me using Fedora is that there is APT for it.

Now, some ask me, what do you use, or what do you think is the best disro. Usually I answer that, but I suggest that you don’t take my answer for it, because it had changed more than 4 times for the past 6 years. Currently I say “GO DEBIAN”

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