 What Linux Distro Do You Use ? |
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 Mar 21 2006, 07:26 PM
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Member [Level 2]  Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 11-February 06 Member No.: 18,526  |
I've just recently tried linux and I must say I"m really impressed with the new KDE and Gnome environments, as well as the shere number of OSS available. I'm really excited about devling deeper into this more stable and efficient OS; This coming from a windows user since it's dawn.
I've started with Gentoo 2006.0 to get my feet wet, and I'm planning to grab the new Fedora Core 5 when I get a chance (as well as more cd's/dvd's) - it was recommended to me. Anyways, what linux flavor do you prefer and why ? |
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Mar 21 2006, 07:34 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 126 Joined: 18-February 06 From: London, England Member No.: 18,837 |
I've got a copy of Suse lying around, but I've never used it.
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Mar 21 2006, 10:13 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 27-June 05 From: Minnesota Member No.: 8,734 |
i've used a cd-boot version of linux called knoppix.... It is a nice cd-boot version of linux. Comes in handy for using on school computers or just a different os then windows.
I am going to be getting fedora soon, I've heard that it is very good. My friend uses it and likes it a lot. I would probably recommend it, but its whatever you like the most. |
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Mar 22 2006, 02:35 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 22-March 06 Member No.: 20,473 |
I've heard a lot of things about Knoppix, both good and bad. Do you have any networking or anything, cause' everytime I try to use Linux, I can't get my networking running... I use Fedora usually, its nice, comes with lots of games :-).
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Mar 22 2006, 04:33 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 426 Joined: 24-September 05 Member No.: 12,212 |
I use slackware. it's very versatile while being not newb unfriendly. I don't like redhat/fedora. their updating and whatnot always screws up.
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Mar 22 2006, 05:22 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 18-August 05 Member No.: 10,836 |
Im using Slackware, yes some of you might say that im mazohist... but im not, i realy like to do things the most simple way there is but. Slackware is not realy user frieandly type of distro, he isint friendly at all, but he is much better then many other linux distro in many ways. If you learn Red Hat or SuSe... you learned red hat or suse, but if you learn how to use Slackware, your mastered the linux
 If you have trouble finding the right distro for you... maybe Live linux distro chooser will help ya. Linux Distribution Chooser Linux Distribution Chooser 2 Linux Distribution Chooser 3 If you run the linux for the first time, i suggest you to use some live cd linux distros like Knoppix he is the most popular, but you have others on www.damnsmalllinux.org/ you can find some basic mini linux's, that you can put on your USB drive and run em that way, some of them are like 30-40mb  If you tryed live cd but you wont more, then i suggest you to start with SuSe the newest version you can find, or with Ubuntu. You can order ubuntu for free, they even pay your post on https://shipit.ubuntu.com I ordered and it came to me like 1monts after but i live in Serbia Im not big fan of Ubuntu becouse its not so complex and it uses Gnome gui, but his "brother" Kubuntu uses KDE grafical envoriament. |
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Jun 4 2006, 07:35 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 30-October 05 Member No.: 13,574 |
I use often Knoppix from (live-CD / DVD), but i'm still searching a distribution for installation on my hard drive. Since they work with older hardware as well I'll try it with an older Comp.
For making a firewall/router I've used IPCOP (small and works fine). With knoppix I'm using the KDE So I'm seaching for a distribution were I can select the KDE desktop. Maybe I'll try Kubuntu. |
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Jun 4 2006, 08:44 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 17-May 06 Member No.: 23,815 |
installing Ubuntu next Monday, if all goes well - theres some crap with the wirless that messes up all the time. A little noob like me can't set up an ndiswrapper, so I'm getting a friend to take a peek at it. "Thats what friends are for..."
 I though Ubuntu worked with KDE? Kubuntu, which is a subsection of Ubuntu, does, so I would expect Ubuntu itself to use KDE... Oh well, I'll find out next Monday
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Jun 4 2006, 09:42 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 21-May 06 Member No.: 24,065 |
I love SuSE10.1. It is extremely easy to network and to add a printer, I got a samba server running in around 15 minutes with no previous experience. I used to use Mandrake and Debian, but they didn't have what I was looking for.
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