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Anything can be slow if not setup correctly. Generally, as long as you install only what you need and apply patches in a reasonable fashion, any of the major releases are stable and quite usable.
Personally, I prefer Gentoo for non critical systems.
Stephen M. Adams Thanks. I did set it up as far as possible. Still it was quite slow. I could not find Suse ISOs I admit. Where do they...
It's stable, current and works well. I've loaded it on IBM Thinkpads (various models), Dell servers, MPC servers and a bunch of different generic Intel boxes.
While I don't use it, Fedora ISO's are here:
I don't use SUSE either, but ISO's for the open source version are here:
How come you had so much trouble finding the ISO's? Or did you quit looking when you saw the 'pay' (ie directly supported) versions?
For work, I use Red Hat Enterprise, and we pay for the yearly support agreement. I have no problem with paying for support-updates, given the regulated releases.
The ISO's I noted above have the standard set of utils.
They are selling supported version. But there are plenty of sources for good releases that do not require payment. See Gentoo as a great example of this.
-Stephen
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