Your ratings of Linux distro's

[dangerstat]

I'm getting a bit annoyed with people saying one distro is better than another (though I do it occasionally too) I'd rather people rate them on a number of areas so I thought I'd start a thread on it.

categories (mark out of 10)
[A] Stability
Package installation and management
[C] Modernity of packages
[D] Support whether official or unofficial (forums etc.)


For me:
Debian [A] 9 6 [C] 4 [D] 8
RHEL [A] 9 9 [C] 7 [D] 9
SuSe [A] 6 8 [C] 9 [D] 7
Fedora [A] 4 5 [C] 9 [D] 7
Ubuntu [A] 6 7 [C] 8 [D] 10

Cheers

Dangerstat

 

[dangerstat]

Not to rain on your parade, but why do you rate Ubuntu's package management higher than Debian's? They both use Debian's system and with a few largely inconsequential differences are the same.

In the vast majority of cases stability and freshness of packages exist at opposite ends of the same continuum. Older, vetted, packages are tested and observed ad nauseam to become vetted until they, usually, are old. Bleeding-edge packages contain all the fun new stuff that you've always wanted except that they lack the bugfixes and tweaks that come later in life.

I'd say your opinion is clearly based on different experiences than me. My main (and often only) way of obtaining packages is to use the installation media, and hence why rate Ubuntu higher in those areas. I should stress that my machine runs Debian so just being fair.

 

[dangerstat]

Debian puts out EVERYTHING on CDs. Ubuntu has but one disk with installable packages on it. Seems that without 'net access Debian would win in spades.

I should stress that my machine is running Ubuntu so just being fair.

Debian only put libre software on it's install media, hence you can't play DVD's after installing Debian without getting VideoLan codecs.

Lol at a Debian user highlighting Ubuntu's adv's and a Ubuntu user highlighting Debians adv's!

 

[dangerstat]

It sounds like dangerstat is.

Mobile broadband dongle + Debian = FAIL. Hence the problem