Which Distro is Right For Me ?

[MetalheadGautham]

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]

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

no one thinks bloatware in linux

 

[MetalheadGautham]

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.

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