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Best version of linux
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Name: will
Date: July 25, 2002 at 08:35:56 Pacific
Subject: Best version of linux |
Comment: What is the best version of linux out there-considering ease of use, features, etc
thanks
will
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Response Number 1
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Name: vinay
Date: July 25, 2002 at 08:42:19 Pacific
Subject: Best version of linux |
Reply: (edit)This will totally depend on the kind of usage u r looking at, it could be a server, workstation, desktop...
To my experience for server RH7.2 with KDE 3 would do the magic for server environmet. In case u r looking for a desktop OS alternative Mandrake and SUSE are good. Regards, Vinay
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Name: Charles Bradshaw
Date: July 25, 2002 at 19:33:49 Pacific
Subject: Best version of linux
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Reply: (edit)Best hardware support, ease of use, easy to install, and workstation oriented with full set of servers: Mandrake Linux. While you can download the ISOs, I prefer to purchase it, thus supporting my distro of choice. I always get the Powerpack Edition for the extras. Depends on what you want to do with linux. With mandrake 8.2 Powerpack, IF you have an older cpu like the K6-2, you have to download a patch file and follow the instructions, as the install hangs, due to the commercial apps being built with i686 instructions. This does not apply to the standard edition (only powerpack). I use Mandrake 8.2 powerpack. Charles
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Response Number 4
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Name: Logic 3:16
Date: August 29, 2002 at 23:51:40 Pacific
Subject: Best version of linux
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Reply: (edit)Linux is overall a PIECE OF GARBAGE no matter what version you try, even though I personally hate Microsoft as a company. In my 20 years of experience with IBM machines, Windows is the best general purpose operating system available that can run as ANYTHING (server, desktop, workstation, whatever). Windows is compatible with a LOT more hardware than Linux. Windows is easier to configure (even my grandmother can do it). Windows has hundreds of thousands of more applications that will run on it (going back over 15 years to the old DOS days). According to what I've read from Linux fans, Linux is really just for geeks and intellectual wankers who like computers for their own sake, not for the average consumer who just wants to get a damn computer installed so he can actually get to work and do something productive. Hell, even 16-bit MS-DOS and Windows 3.1/Windows for Workgroups are more user friendly and still more practical than any flavor of Unix. I'm all for getting more OS platforms to compete against Microsoft, but Linux is really going to need to get some kind of strong central leadership and standardization if the mainstream public is expected to use it on the average PC.
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