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Topic: Choosing a Linux distribution (Read 1029 times)
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Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 69
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 Dec 21, 2007, 11:12:00 PM | #1 |
The reason I'm looking at Linux, is because I'm "tired" of Windows. Windows is great, but I have now become limited to it. It doesn't surprise me anymore. If something doesn't work, it's fixed pretty soon because I understand how Windows works. It's also limitied on how much I can customize my system and how much control I am given.
I've been experimenting with Linux lately, but haven't been able to find a version I quite enjoy. The reason I'm asking now, is because I'm without a hard drive at the moment, and would like to look into it and prepare for when my new hard drive ships.
I have a 2.6 Ghz processor and 512mb of RAM.
I've tried
* Ubuntu and Xubuntu: Wasn't anything really wrong. Got my hardware all correct. Doesn't have everything I want supplied, which would mean building things myself, although not truly a negative against it. Personally didn't care for it though. Found it ugly, and tried too hard to be friendly. Rather just use another distribution that feels righter.
* Zenwalk: It was fairly nice. Didn't get my graphics card right, but easily fixed. Internet didn't work right away either, but fixed that easily also. I liked it more than Ubuntu, although still lacking in packaged programs I wanted. Felt righter than Ubuntu, just not as much as much as I'd hope.
* Arch: I've never been able to install it. I've tried .7 and "Never Panic" and end up messing up my hard drive. Although, "Never Panic" was running fine, got a kernel panic though. There was an "official" fix to it, but I tried a different fix that worked for someone else, IDE Legacy. Unfortunatly I've lost the jumper so I couldn't revive, and so I do not want to try Arch for a long time, probably until I get me a brand new custom computer that's up to date.
* Debian: Hrm. Seemed alot like Ubuntu, which is to be expected I guess.
Personally, Slackware "feels" righter than Debian so far. I've been thinking of trying out Slackware itself, but was looking at Gentoo also. I'm still pretty much a newb at Linux though. Any other recommendations though would be nice, even Zenwalk, Debian, or Ubuntu with reasons why, such as "x feature is great and will start to show off once you start this." |
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Jan 03, 2008, 09:56:18 PM | #2 |
Ubuntu is the best distro I've found for use on a personal computer. I'm running it on my old Compaq laptop (it's a Presario R3000 (64bit) so it's not really old, I just bought a much nicer HP Pavillion). The laptop was pretty messed up from installing the Agloco toolbar so I wanted to wipe Windows off it and start fresh. The only issue I encountered was I had to use version 6.06 instead of 7 because there were too many incompatibilities in 7 with my particular laptop. Other than that, the installer detected all my hardware except the onboard wireless adapter but there is a wrapper that let me use the windows driver for the adapter and everything is working fine.
As far as servers go, I'm running RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) on all of most dedicated servers (one is still running an old version of Mandrake). My newest server is Dell PowerEdge 6800, Quad Dual-Core 3.0GHz Xeon with 16Gb RAM and RHEL handles that monster perfectly fine. I've sworn by Red Hat since the early 1990's when I was part of the development team but recently Ubuntu has grown on me. |
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