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Sam
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2006-09-06 10:55:55 |
A useful site to anyone who wants to find out more about the many different distributions of Linux.
distrowatch
IMHO if I had to compare to Windows I would say:
Suse 10 is a bit like XP – good driver support will work on almost anything
Red Hat is a bit like 2K – you should be ok on well known hardware
However I would look at Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
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Ian
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2006-09-06 11:01:47 |
I personally have used
Mandrake (now Mandriva)
SuSE
Red Hat
Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora (testing ground for Redhat basically)
Gentoo
I would say that all of them are very much a contender for the Windows Vista/XP slots (apart from Redhat as you say, because it can "feel" old).
At present I am using Gentoo and needless to say from the list that I have tried out, I am very happy with, sometimes the compiling can get alittle tiresome, but apart from that it is very well setup and also allows you to learn more about Linux and also what an OS is about :), which for me is a very good thing.
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Sam
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2006-09-06 11:12:00 |
I didn't much care for Fedora, i found it a bit of a pain but this was in my early days of messing about with Linux. Trying to get a wireless Netgear card working was a pain in the a** and i just gave up, after all i didn't know anything about compiling a new driver and also the use of Windows 2k NDIS wrapper driver was new to me.
I also think RH/Fedora feels old maybe that’s down to the gnome desktop unlike SuSe/Kubuntu which uses KDE.
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Ian
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2006-09-06 11:15:50 |
Yep totally agree with the wireless drivers etc, they are getting support now and even month to month the support is getting far far better. I am presently using the rt2500 driver which means that I have native WPA as well, thus not using the NDIS wrapper (even though that is a cool program just prefer to use native drivers is there is one).
Yeah, the gnome desktop can "feel" old at times, very good point.
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Sam
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2006-09-06 11:28:15 |
When I was messing about with Fedora the only driver that might make a Netgear PCMCIA card work was "Prism", needless to say I didn't have any luck with that either.
Even in the last year or so Linux has come a very long way just in the wireless area with native wireless drivers and native WPA.
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Ian
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2006-09-06 11:58:25 |
It appears that many vendors have realised that Linux is coming of age and starting to either supply the driver details or write them themselves.
Getting back to the, what's the fav distribution of choice, what is your fav distribution at present ?.
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Sam
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2006-09-07 13:02:09 |
I have used Suse 9.1 and 10 and Kubuntu.
I like SuSe as most things just work out of the box.
My one to watch is Ubuntu in the server market
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Ian
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2006-09-07 13:05:08 |
good choice :). yeah SuSE is well polished as an OS.
and totally agree, if there desktop space is anything to go by (Ubuntu) and if they target the server market as well in the same fashion, and this (lets face it) is where allot of money comes from the support costs, will be the crowning on the cake for Ubuntu.
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Sam
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2006-09-07 13:13:17 |
Especially since Ubuntu server is going to be supported for 5 years...
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