Best Linux?

[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.

Regards, Satips.

[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

Zitizon X

[LucianPopescu]

I use Slackware and i think that is the BEST could be.. it's professional, compact, and anything you want or need, but you first need to learn it for use in it's full power :D http://www.slackware.com/ enjoy ;): Lucian (a.k.a aSterX)

[dothebart]

why bother to install it? Just take one of the ready built images over at the vmware appliance market place and boot it up like described here for the citadel groupware apliance: http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:appliance

[The_Great_Gonzo]

Hey Google is your friend. If you spare about 10 minutes you will easily get yuor linux pc on your network and printing. You don't mention with distro your using??

Oh, uh, good question. Now technically speaking, uhh, let's say, put me down as a... 'Whatever'?

[Lost User]

Ernest Laurentin wrote:

Mandrake - for power user

It's been a few years, but last time I saw Mandrake it was most definitely not aimed at power users, it was the Ubuntu of about 3 years ago... Have they had a paradigm shift?

Paul

Pauliastan in The Code Project, password: byalmightybob
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[Lost User]

Recently I have become a fan of Debian. I used Ubuntu for nearly a year, but decided to try Debian, seeing that's what Ubuntu's based on. Wasn't disappointed :)

Paul

Pauliastan in The Code Project, password: byalmightybob
How much time is left?[^]

[Eric Georgiades]

i love Suse for so many reasons. it's like fedora and debian put together. funny, after reading the replies above, i heard Ubuntu (like 10 times) and none for Fedora. (red hat excluded). best reasons i love suse : it's Novell. it's got oh so many drivers ready. it's got YaST it supports Red Hat packages (.rpm) it supports Debian packackes (.deb) it can work YUM and aptitude it just works love the new kde gui (start menu is fantastic - sry vista) i like lizards. i've used Fedora alot, started off with debian though. in the end, it's Suse (10.2) for me.

Ericos Georgiades

[Owen Lawrence]

I'd like to install Linux on a 466MHz 96MB RAM class machine. What Linux would be good for that? - Owen -

[Lampros Giampouras]

I vote for Ubuntu too. It's the one I use

[David Crow]

The_Great_Gonzo wrote:

If you spare about 10 minutes you will easily get yuor linux pc on your network and printing.

Maybe that's the problem. I spent several hours searching. I found lots of information, but nothing trivial. Even so, Google is only as good as the question that gets asked.

The_Great_Gonzo wrote:

You don't mention with distro your using??

Would that seriously make a difference? In any case, it was v5.10.

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[jerome5136]

I think it depends on if you want it to be a server or a desktop. Slackware for server, Ubuntu as desktop.

[briane23]

I have tried OpenSUSE 10.2, Fedora 5 and Ubuntu 6.06LTS and 7.04, all of them on dual boot machines with XP Pro and Server 2003. Using M$ VM was not worth it, very slow and sometimes did not even install certain distros. If you want to run in VM go with Parallels or VMWare. All were pretty easy to install along side XP/Server 2003, with Ubuntu being the easiest. OpenSuse had a nice feature that it allowed you to use your Windows Domain login. Fedora was ok, but I think still needs a lot of pollishing. Ubuntu would have to be my hands down favorite. Easy to configure, with WiFi, the interface and printing. Had most of the commonly used apps installed. Ubuntu also offered a really easy to use software installer and keeps all the packages up to date. It automatically recognized all my hardware on standard PC and an IBM T40 notebook, including all networking. I was able to use the internet, all network peripherals and shared folders, within 10 minutes after the full installation. Ubuntu also allows you to boot from the CD, without installing just to make sure your machine is compatable, well worth it. Brian

[Peter Condosta]

If you like configuring linux and figuring out how it works, I'd recommend slackware. After install, it drops you into the shell and lets you have all the fun you can handle :) But seriously, Slackware is a great linux learning tool. It lets you install as little or as much as you want. It's rock solid. And, it doesn't use any wacky package management system, you can use tgz "packages" or compile straight from source. Yea, it can be a bitch with dependacies, but at least you know exactly what you are installing.