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Name: willjoe86
Date: June 17, 2004 at 18:32:18 Pacific
Subject: best linux for home use?
OS: xp home
CPU/Ram: 1.4/256
Comment:

What is the best linux distribution for home use if it has to have all this:

Ease of use/A good GUI
Internet capabilities
Bug free/stable
Partitioning capabilities
Dual OS booting capable

Thanks
Will


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Response Number 1
Name: markp1313
Date: June 17, 2004 at 20:10:35 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Mandrake or SUSE are the most user frendly.
My choice would be Mandrake.


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Response Number 2
Name: Infinite Recursion
Date: June 18, 2004 at 10:03:27 Pacific
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I use Gentoo at home.


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Response Number 3
Name: deity_me
Date: June 19, 2004 at 08:39:30 Pacific
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I find mandrake to be bloated and will slow down a not so powerful computer.
I use slackware

Money not an issue?
Where do you live and when are you not home?
I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff


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Response Number 4
Name: Sanjaya Sugiarto (by Sanjaya)
Date: June 21, 2004 at 13:12:45 Pacific
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For beginners I recommend SuSE.
Mandrake or RedHat (Fedora) are either too bloat or too buggy.
SuSE is stable and easy to install.

If you has some experience in Linux than Gentoo or Slackware is a nice one.


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Response Number 5
Name: rakee
Date: June 30, 2004 at 00:29:50 Pacific
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I use Fedora Core 1.yep it is somewhat buggy.My primary useis for application development using Qt for linux environment.But i cant enjoy musics,videos etc..Fedora is bugging with lots of sound problems

ME a Newbie to linux


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