Hi,
I know I am biased about this, but I'll venture forth anyway.
You mention you want a machine that is
a) functional
This is a functional, working machine I am writing from. I am a
consultant, and this machine *has* to be live almost on a 7x24
basis, my bread-and-butter depends on it.
It has most everything that my DEC Alpha workstation used to
have (including Motif), and pthreads. (It does not have DCE,
but hey, I couldn't afford it anyway)
IMHO there is no other distribution that can do better (did I
say I was biased?)
b) feature-loaded
About 1100 packages and growing. *And* you can install rpm format
packages as well. There are not many things you can find on any
other distribution that you can't run on a Debian machine.
c) maintainability and upgradeability
This *is* Debian's forte. No toeher distribution has the
dependency trees like Debian has, and though there are a few
kinks in the system, these can be avoided by reading the release
notes (does anybody ;-)
I would not advocate Debian merely for the free software
aspect. (I don't advocate emacs for that reason either). I quite
frankly think that Debian is the best distribution out
there. Period.
manoj
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