preferred linux distro for workstation usage?

[matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 09/13/2010 04:53 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
> > The real question I would guess is why choose any Distro if you really
> > don't like it?
> > No one is forcing you to choose any of them.
> >
> > The great thing about 'Open Source' is, if you are willing to invest
> > yourself in it, it
> > can grow into anything you want.
> >
> > Most of us are willing to accept the efforts of others, then whine
> > about what we don't
> > like.  Gosh, that starts sounding like Winders or Mac heads!
> >
> > Most distributions are sill open to 'new packages' or 'meta packages'
> > that mix more logical
> > combinations of other packages.  If you really don't like it, consider
> > being part of the
> > solution, rather than the precipitate. [Sorry, I couldn't help myself. :]
> I have not seen anyone using Gentoo. Gentoo is a bit different from
> other distros is that it is generally a source distro where you build
> just about the entire distro from sources. Rajiv Manglani has presented
> Gentoo to the BLU on occasion and usually does a presentation at MIT in
> January.
>
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Or Linux From Scratch.  If you have a lot of time and patience this is
something every sysadmin should have tried at least once.

-matt