[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Simon Kenyon]

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 18:19, Colm Buckley wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2005, at 20:15, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 17:21, Joe Fitzsimons wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >> It would be insane to run it on a production server, particularly
> >> if you've been messing with flags. You never know when that'll
> >> come back to bite you in the ass.
> >
> > that is rubbish
>
> Another well-reasoned rebuttal from the Gentoo crowd.  You really
> aren't doing your cause any favours, you know...

i didn't feel i needed to justify my choice of distribution
but i was pointing out that he was talking rubbish

for what it is worth, the three "leading" distributions that i come across in 
my travels are fedora, debian and ubuntu

ubuntu is a modern debian (which would appear to be imploding)
the number of problems that users (on the mailing lists that i frequent) of 
fedora have (albeit new users of linux) is staggering.

gentoo is the only distribution that i have found which doesn't subject the 
user to dependency hell while allowing them o remain current. i've only come 
unstuck once and a bit of googling soon fixed that.

--
simon