Which Distro is Right For Me ?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by mehulved

I do sometimes.

You mean to use file manager in super user mode ? Well, sunny and other ubuntu era linux users use gksu for that, though I personally prefer sux.

But honestly, In arch, I NEVER EVER need to use anything other than sudo, cd, dir, nano, less, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, pacman, yaourt, pkgbuild, make, and last, but not the least, man when I am trying to administer the system. The last four are very rare, and navigation tools with nano is what I need most of the time.

But CentOS 5.2 is MUCH MUCH different. I N.E.E.D. to use GUI for simple administration tasks too. And debian is half way between the two worlds.

[mehulved]

duh. who uses a file manager? I haven't used a file manager in years. And I don't like installing gnome-libs or kdelibs for gksu, gksudo or kdesu.
But, there are times when I do need to run some GUI app as root to test out or something. Like I am not so well versed with tcp packets and all, so I prefer wireshark to tcpdump.

[MetalheadGautham]

Isn't there a ncurses based gui for iptables ? (or was it for SELinux ?)

[mehulved]

Duh. scripting FTW! when it comes to firewalls. Why do you need ncurses for firewalls? iptables is easy enough to script unless you want something too advanced. I love pf when it comes to all this.

[Faun]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Isn't there a ncurses based gui for iptables ? (or was it for SELinux ?)

no one thinks bloatware in linux

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by mehulved

Duh. scripting FTW! when it comes to firewalls. Why do you need ncurses for firewalls? iptables is easy enough to script unless you want something too advanced. I love pf when it comes to all this.

Its just that I remember using an nCurses based terminal program for port forwarding about half an year back on ubuntu.

Originally Posted by T159

no one thinks bloatware in linux

ncurses is NOT bloatware .
Its one of the BEST things in linux world.
A simple text and terminal based GUI which can be programmed via C++.
Its simply too beautiful.

[gary4gar]

I took the Linux Distro chooser test for fun, and was presented with following options

1. Gentoo Linux
2. Slackware Linux
3. Debian GNU/Linux
4. FreeBSD
5. Archlinux

I think the distro chooser is quite accurate