Distribution for next Installfest

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Jerry Feldman writes:
>
>IMHO, Debian is the best distribution if you know what you are
>doing. I think that SuSE is also excellent. The only reason for not
>using Debian at the installfests is the people that come to the
>installfests need something they can use later, and I found that as
>good as Debian is, it is much less user friendly, especially for
>beginners. Installation is also slower, at least until they get their
>new package manager out (I have not checked).

I won't dispute this.  It was the "more packages" claim that caught my
attention.

Anthony J. Gabrielson writes:

>I heard suse refered to as haveing the most apps come with it.

If somebody sends me a list of the SuSE packages, preferably with
descriptions and sizes, I may find time to do some sort of comparison.

			- Jim Van Zandt

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