Favorite Linux Distribution 2005-02-08 - By Aaron
HI,
I have tried many distros and my take for what its worth is as follows
Fedora Core - very bleeding edge fun to play with but can have broken
things. Also resource hungry
Mandrake is easy for a beginner and has a bunch on great configurtion
gui's as well as urpmi a mandrake apt-get look alike. For me I didn't
get it to recognize all my hardware out of the box.
Novell/SuSe it looks so cool and has Yast, but remember if you do
something manually yast won't work.
Mephis - didn't like it
Yoper - nice idea bad implementation, and I mean bad BAD
Xandros- I have run three versions of it. It is extremely comfortable
for windows users, and it recognizes and configures out of the box
more hardware than any other distro I have tried. However if you are
planning anything unusual (compiling lots of software from source code
you will need a lot of patience to set Xandros up) I would still be
using Xandros execept for the fact I want pro audio on my computer.
Debian - I tried installing debian 5 times finally I tried demudi and
I just love debian. There is a bit more learning but for the long haul
I think debian (with a good installer like demudi has) is the best for
servers. (my opinion). One gotcha is that debian prefers Gnome over
KDE and for windows users KDE is better (however it is a brainless
operation to install KDE with apt-get)
I have actually tried many other distros, but that should get you
started.
Aaron
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:25:28PM -0700 or thereabouts, The Disguised Jedi
wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> I've been a list member for a while, helped out some people, and asked
> some questions. But, today I have a completely off topic, but
> somewhat relevant question for y'all.
>
> What is your favorite Linux distribution? What would you recommend
> for my situation?
>
> I'm brand new to Linux. I'm just trying to learn how it works, but I
> think I'll catch on quick. I'm looking for the one with the most
> capability, and also one to run my development instance of Apache 2.0
> on.
>
> I've been looking at either RedHat or Fedora. Is this a good choice?
> I'm truly drawing a blank, and I've searched Google, but never really
> found anything extremely useful. Please help me, an old Windows
> veteran, escape the Microsoft box!
>
> Thanks a ton!!
>
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