| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 10/14/2007 5:38:54 PM | Ubuntu all the way.
Also found out if you add Wine "Doors" you can literally install most Winblows crap on it with full repository support. I run mine with Beryl running vmware for mandatory Windows stuff like watching tsn broadband hockey games ;-)
If you want a very very user friendly debian distro I strongly suggest Ubuntu | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 10/15/2007 2:40:01 PM | Multiboot:
I am SOOOO sick of Window$, but like others, I have a lot invested in software. I played with SuSE a while back and loved it but when the machine died I did not reload it.
Now I would like the option to dual boot until I can build a Linux box with a VM for XP. For now, I think I would like to try Kubuntu. Does anyone have any feedback about installing to a new partition on an XP system? Will it hose XP? Are there other distros with a selection of packages already installed that is more multi-boot friendly? Yes, I can install software myself (it's almost idiot proof with RPMs and / or utilities like YAST) but I administer networks all day and I REALLY don't want to come home and have to tweak everything to play nicely together.
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 10/16/2007 2:24:09 PM | 1Fish ^^^^^^,
Try PCLinuxOS. Out of the box, it has Flash & Java installed... with one click installs, you can add cool/standard fonts everyone else has, DVD playability, upgrade the current software to the newest, etc.
When you install, it's easy as pie to partition. Beforehand though, defrag your XP system. Then load the Live CD, and run the install. Choose "create/edit partitions". In a graph, it shows the main partition where XP resides. "Re-Size" it down, freeing up to about 20+ gigs, and the system will grind for a while. Your XP partition won't be hosed. It will then free up blank space in the graph. Click on it, then click "Create Partition", and maximize that freed 20+ gigs. Viola. Done. Then go thru the install and it installs on there, and will add a blue screen when your computer reboots to choose XP or Linux.
PCLinuxOS is great because it comes with popular software & plugins out of the box... isn't bloated, and has a software repository that's easy to access to add new software and to upgrade current software.
For your wireless card (if you have one), you can easily just go in to the "Control Panel" of it, and add a wireless component, and search your XP partition for the driver, add it, and viola - you have wireless. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2007 8:20:14 PM |
Would anybody care to comment on why they think Linux is either batter or more popular than the BSDs?
A bit of time on Google will net you plenty of opinions on this topic. I'll take a stab on why Linux is the more popular. Better is many times subjective as each OS has their own strengths.
When the BSD code was freely released in the aftermath of the AT&T/BSD trial, it probably still had an air of legal uncertainty about it. That, coupled with the unprotective nature of the BSD license where anyone can take BSD licensed code proprietary and never share the changes/improvements with the original author or the community, probably kept a lot of people from embracing BSD.
At about the same time the GNU Project was attempting to build a UNIX clone from scratch that would not be encumbered by any AT&T licensing (AT&T Bell Labs had developed the original UNIX in the early '70s and in the years that followed the University of California at Berkeley made many improvements but distributed them freely under the "BSD" license. Eventually BSD started cutting into AT&T's bottom line and they sued the University of California contending copyright infringement), but it lacked a working OS kernel (in fact, it still does for the most part) yet had many other components like a compiler, C library, and utilities in a working form. The GNU Project used the GNU Public License, GPL, which basically says that you may use the program as you wish, but when you wish to redistribute the program you must do so under the same license so the program's author(s) and the community can benefit from your changes. So, it's not legally possible to grab GPL licensed software and make it proprietary as it is with a BSD licensed program.
Into this scene in 1991 bumbles one Linus Torvalds who was frustrated by the lack of a free UNIX type of operating system that he could develop without someone incorporating his code into a proprietary product. He began to develop a "kernel" and then did something somewhat remarkable for the time, he posted his work to Usenet and asked for help. You see, software was commonly developed in a certain aura of secrecy (even GNU Project software, do a Google search on "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" ) and releases were made when the developers felt the code was "ready". Developers jumped on the chance to work on an operating system kernel that promised to implement many features of UNIX. The mantra of Linux kernel development became "release early and release often" and Linux quickly became a fast moving and high profile software project.
But what made Linux development attractive? For one thing it quickly became a meritocracy where theory and lofty ideas took a back seat to working code. For another, contributors were assured that neither Linus nor anyone else could suddenly close development essentially locking their hard work into a proprietary product forever without them receiving the benefits of further improvement. This is the protection that the GPL offers programmers, that its requirement to share improvements and fixes when the software is redistributed invites more contributions.
In a short period of time other programmers applied the Linux development model to their own projects and now we have a rich community of developers and users and a multitude of projects that thrive because of the protection of the GPL. This is the genius of Linus Torvalds, combining a new paradigm of a worldwide network of developers with a copyright license that protects everyone's contributions and allows anyone to use the work for any purpose. It is this philosophy that fuels the multitude of Free Software projects and Linux based distributions.
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Posted: 11/3/2007 5:53:34 AM | ^ That is where http://www.distrowatch.com is so useful. They have a description and links to nearly every Linux based distribution in existence plus *BSD, Solaris, and perhaps more. Most every distribution has some sort of live CD ISO available so it can evaluated before actually installing it to the hard drive. Of course, performance of a hard drive installation will be much better.  | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 12/6/2007 8:45:07 PM | Ubuntu and debian, the way linux should be.
Other than that SELinux (Security enhanced) | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 12/6/2007 11:00:53 PM | I've tried Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, Slackware, DSL, Slax, etc. etc. I have setteled on Ubuntu since it is well organized and has great support via their forums.
Before I settled on Ubuntu I dual booted Debian and Win XP Pro, I liked Debian and their loyalty to the Open Source philosophy even ditching Firefox due to some small parts of it which were "non-free", it's since been rearranged in a new package called Ice Weasel. Debian is also very conservative they are very cautious about what the add to their distribution. Ubuntu choose Debain as a base to their distribution since they could see how well thought out the distribution is in its evolution.
Ubuntu was so well made and so easy to update, my main reason to choose it over pure Debian, I got rid of my dual boot setup and went with Ubuntu Linux only, no Microsoft at all.
One great thing is Linux is there underneath it all no matter what you use, we're all the same when it comes to the guts, the kernel and GNU applications are at the heart of GNU/Linux. | |
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Posted: 1/10/2008 12:59:06 PM | I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon... sometimes i test (and use) other distro's too, like PCLinuxOS, Sidux, MEPIS, Mint, Foresight, and some others...
Ubuntu does everything i want to do with my PC's ! | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 1/10/2008 7:10:50 PM | I'm still sticking with Gentoo. As close to Linus from scratch as you can get. Also has the top notch support in forums, IRC and a mailing list. Hard to beat all that.
Before that I was a Mandrake user. It was fine until time to upgrade.
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Posted: 4/28/2008 9:39:07 AM | | I've been running Linux off and on for the past 10 years. I ran Red Hat and Mandrake for a while. Since 2000 I've been running SUSE. I still run SUSE 9.1. YaST does a good job of installing many software packages, especially RPMs. As others have stated, it sucks when it comes to multimedia support. And I've had problems in the past with trying to upgrade WINE. I'm still on dial-up and my external modem got fried a few years ago, but SUSE comes with drivers for my LTWinmodem. When I get DSL again I may switch to Kubuntu or even Debian. I hear there are many more apps for Debian systems than Red Hat-based ones. | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 11:09:24 PM | I use Debian HD Install of Knoppix. The latest KDE seems to be not that great and has a few issues. Hope they resolve it. Knoppix is considered a bloat with all the extra software. However, learning a bit about them has offered me useful info.
I barely started a few times with LFS (linuxfromscratch.org) but never really got to finish it, something or the other always came along. | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/16/2008 3:10:19 PM | | I run a website off openSUSE 10 using Java/JBoss and MySQL. Haven't rebooted the server in over 6 months, so, so far so good! | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 6/29/2008 2:47:22 AM | Ubuntu 8.4
I like it :D
Plus wine runs like a wet dream on it, which means it's pretty much a windows platform too!
Though I do use Windows Xp (With so many addons it doesn't even look like windows) But blackbox and rainmeter make it look like I am running a Unix type machine | |
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Posted: 6/29/2008 7:39:20 AM | OpenSuSE 11.0 right now.
I like Ubuntu, Debian, LFS, and a few others, but OpenSuSE just seems to be the most polished to me, especially with a KDE 4.0 desktop. Also, having the support of Novell behind them means that some of their stuff works a little better than under other environments. I just built a new computer with a Radeon HD 3200, and it was easier to get it working in OpenSuSE than in Kubuntu for me. I do think that APT is a slightly better package management system, and it's harder to get multimedia working without screwing up a bunch of other packages sometimes, but once you get it set up, I have an easier time in it. | |
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