In an op-ed column at eWEEK, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols address the question, "What's the best Linux desktop?" There's no single answer, Vaughan-Nichols says. "It really depends on what you want to do, but here are three of my favorites and the jobs they're most suited for." Vaughan-Nichols writes . . .
About five minutes after Linus Torvalds first let the world know about Linux 0.01 back in the dawn of time, aka Aug. 25, 1991, the first fight over which was the best Linux distribution began.
I kid. The never-ending fight over which is the best Linux distribution didn't begin in earnest, as I recall it, until 1994, with the arrival of Red Hat Linux. Then, as now, there's just something about Red Hat Linux that's like waving a red flag at a bull. Folks just seem to love it or hate it.
Ever since then, it's been a knock-down, drag-out fight between the various Linux distribution fans. I'm not going to join that fuss. I'd rather get work done than fight over which handles file systems marginally better than the other.
So, before walking into the "What's the best Linux distribution?" firefight, let me open by saying that the right way, the real way, to ask the question is, "What's the best Linux distribution for me to do what?"
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In an op-ed column at eWEEK, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols address the question, "What's the best Linux desktop?" There's no single answer, Vaughan-Nichols says. "It really depends on what you want to do, but here are three of my favorites and the jobs they're most