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Best distribution for personal use?
Name: Ilushka Date: February 16, 2004 at 12:18:23 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Athlon 2100+
Comment:
Well,
after some recent and unpleasent encounters with Microsoft I decided that I want something different. I'm want to put Linux on my PC. Can anybody recommend the best distribution for a hoem computer? I was thinking about Mandrake 9.2, what do you guys think?
Name: rick Date: February 16, 2004 at 12:48:09 Pacific
Reply:
never tried man, i use rh 9.0 works great for me.
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Response Number 2
Name: soybean pete Date: February 16, 2004 at 12:51:58 Pacific
Reply:
op if you have plenty of hd try suse mandrake and redhat and maybe others
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Response Number 3
Name: NoviceW Date: February 16, 2004 at 13:11:33 Pacific
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I have tried RH9.0, Debian3.1, SuSE 9.0 and Mandrake 9.2 on my Box. Finally decided to keep SuSE9.0 and Mandrake9.2.
Decision of whether to have Mandrake or SuSE is completely up to you as they both offer somewhat similar things.
According to www.distrowatch.com mandrake is ranked as the best. So I would recommend you to try it. May be others have different opinions. But this is my personal recommendation.
In case if you only want to try Linux without installing, try Knoppix. You can find a good insight to Linux with Knoppix. It can be downloaded for free.
NoviceW
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Response Number 4
Name: unixhead Date: February 17, 2004 at 05:25:28 Pacific
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Distrowatch.com also lists Mandrake as "buggy", which I can verify after going through several versions of it.
As a result, I don't recommend Mandrake to anyone, unless they have hardware that requires the latest contributions in order to run.
I'm not saying Mandrake is a bad distro. I'm just saying that Mandrake tends to serve as an introduction to "bleeding edge" open source technology.
Everything has its purpose.
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Response Number 5
Name: heart_debian Date: February 17, 2004 at 06:31:48 Pacific
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I REALLY recommend debian (http://www.debian.org)
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Response Number 6
Name: doch Date: February 17, 2004 at 08:33:20 Pacific
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I would usa elk linux it is in my book the best one out there by far everything works with the exception of yahoo messenger I have tried a dozen of these but that one is far and away the best for a new linux user. Just my opinion doc
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