Best Linux?

David Crow

Hans Dietrich wrote:

I have heard good things about Ubuntu.

Just for grins, I installed it on a machine, but could not figure out how to get it connected to our network. I was ultimately wanting to be able to print from it, but since our printers are networked, it first must be able to see the network. Oh well...

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Jimmanuel

I use Sabayon Linux[^]

Maximilien

so, this is the sweet Linux, if I want a savory linux, I have to get which one, the Bechamel Linux ?

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Jimmanuel

if you know of a savory linux please provide a link - i am most intrigued!!! ;)

Kevin McFarlane

Interesting the number of Linux versions listed in this thread that I've never heard of! Perhaps that explains why Desktop Linux will never take off. BTW, I assume you're aware of VMWare's VMPlayer app. that you can get preloaded with various distros? May save you time in evaluating the versions.

Kevin

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Kevin McFarlane wrote:

Interesting the number of Linux versions listed in this thread that I've never heard of! Perhaps that explains why Desktop Linux will never take off.

The best Linux for you is Windows 98 SE.

Mike_V

Well the UCLA LUG recommends either Debian or Ubuntu.

Uwe Keim

My co-workers use Debian [^] for servers. Rather "slim" but no/few GUI stuff. For desktop PCs they usually recommend Ubuntu [^].

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J Dunlap

Did it not "see" the network at all? In my experience with Ubuntu (and other distros as well), Samba often has trouble getting the names of the computers on the network and accessing shares via the computer names, but it works fine accessing shares via IP addresses (i.e. "smb://192.168.x.x/sharename").

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Tarakeshwar Reddy

I have installed FreeBSD on a low config machine(PIII 1 GHz, 128 MB ram, 20 GB). It takes up very little resources and very stable.

Hans Dietrich wrote:

I have heard good things about Ubuntu.

I haven't tried it, but remember seeing a video of the screens and it was really cool.

Member 96

Whichever one you decide on be sure to get it by downloading via bittorrent. I just downloaded Ubuntu the other day to install in a vmware 6 vm. All the download sources listed would have taken many hours so I searched for a bittorrent link for the same file and found one and it took a fraction of the time to download it.

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John M Drescher

Kevin McFarlane wrote:

I've never heard of! Perhaps that explains why Desktop Linux will never take off.

I know a lot of people think this gives more choice but in my opinion this is a large waste of resources which could be used in much better ways than reinventing the wheel. With that said I am an expert at gentoo and I find it difficult to use other versions of linux.

John

MatrixCoder

Definitely Ubuntu.

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Ernest Laurentin

Ubuntu definitely - RedHat, Mandrake - for power user God bless, Ernest Laurentin

Sathesh Sakthivel

I go with RedHat, it works good for me.

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Bob Nadler

I have Ubuntu on VPC-2007. Beware of 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on VPC though -- mouse capture is broken unless you patch the Linux kernel. I've also had good luck with openSUSE 10.2 packaged with Mono running on VMware (Mono Downloads). It's pretty cool being able to copy your VS created assemblies to Linux and execute then directly in Mono. It's probably VMware Player vs. VPC-2007, but the hardware support (sound, network, etc.) is much better in openSUSE 10.2 than it is in Ubuntu (6.10 or 7.04).

P P Vilsad

Suse Linux is always a good choice and its very much like windows with all the packages its providing. and the current version is also supports a good ground fot VM

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francoisdotnet

Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth seems to be throwing the money made with Thawte and had left over after his self-funded space trip into the development of Ubuntu. They have really tried and make it a easy and generally complete package for the desktop. (I'm not saying they have developed a Windows equivalent ;P!) I see they also working on a server edition now...

si618

SuSE is slick, Ubuntu is nice and easy to use, although with 7.04 I had problems with installing it on my notebooks second IDE drive (tri-boot with XP and BackTrack2). Plenty of linux VM images good to go...just depends on what you're into. If you want to experiment with security/penetration testing/networking/etc, you can't go past BackTrack (Slax distro). I've been playing with version 2 since it got released and it's way cool. I used it to see how good our companies wi-fi security was...5 minutes of passive sniffing to gather data using kismet and...I shit you not...less than 1 second of cracking with aircrack-ng to break the 128bit WEP key. Yeah, I know, we should be using WPA-TKIP or WPA-CCMP.

ravindu_d

SUSE Linux 10.2 and Ubuntu I reckon

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