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Hans Dietrich wrote:
What's the best free Linux distro these days?
Best for what? For development, I use Fedora these days - it comes with prety recent gcc. For a production web server, I would probably pick CentOS - a RedHat Enterprise free copycat.
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I'm using Ubuntu. I like it. :)
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Depends on what you want to do with it. One of the main reasons there are so many distros, is that each one is meant for a certain type of use. Some make better home desktops, some make better servers, etc etc.
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Centos for server stuff.
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I'm just starting with Linux and like Kubuntu. It's built on Ubuntu, but uses KDE instead of GNOME. I heard KDE is a little more of a resource hog than GNOME. It's a matter of eye candy for me since I'm not using it for anything other than playing with Linux. I'm running it inside a VirtualBox and haven't had any problems... until today. I was palying around and now it won't boot up any more. Gives me a reason to install beta 2 verison. Although, if you keep updating the software do you need to install beta 2 or are the changes incorporated in the updates?
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What do you need it for? General Linuxing around? Take you pick: Ubuntu, Linux Mint Server stuff? CentOS, Ubuntu Server and Debian This should help: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/[^] I have to mention FreeBSD and PC-BSD, they are both awesome and I use FreeBSD quite a bit. Its my webserver, DNS, DB Server and essentially any non-MS server.
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I am using Ubuntu Server. It works perfectly for what I want to do (web server, dns server, afp server, samba) so I guess it is best for me.
With or without the GUI Rama?
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Depends on what you want to do with it. One of the main reasons there are so many distros, is that each one is meant for a certain type of use. Some make better home desktops, some make better servers, etc etc.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)so what would you recommend for a home desktop, or a dev desktop? server? (some here say centos) what's your recommendation?
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As others have pointed out, there is no general best...it depends on what you will use it for. Here is a link to a wizard to help choose a distribution. I have only run through it once, so can't vouch for its usefulness, although its recommendations seemed appropriate: Linux Distribution Chooser Here is a Wikipedia link that categorises the distributions: List of Distributions
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With or without the GUI Rama?
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Without!
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so what would you recommend for a home desktop, or a dev desktop? server? (some here say centos) what's your recommendation?
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http://obamacaretruth.org/I haven't done the Linux thing in a couple years, so my opinion is a bit out of date, but I found Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandrake to all be pretty good home desktop OSes (Haven't done much *nix dev in recent years). I remember Mandrake being a little more user-friendly, but that was a while back. For servers, I've always gone with Debian, but I'm not that experienced in that department.
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Or you could be a real man and use Unix. ;P
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Hans, I'll throw my two cents into the Linux ring here: First off, as many others have already said, you need to know what it is you want out of it, really, since they're all kinda of different; of course, that doesn't stop you from adding to any of the distros. I run both Ubuntu and openSUSE and I like them both. I have found that GNOME is far more stable and user friendly than KDE, plus I don't care for the whole KDE Widget interface thing. Both Ubuntu and openSUSE provide a Software library, where you can go easily find Linux software to install. They are well organized and maintained. I have run both of them in VirtualBox without any problems, and for the most part, they perform well. Although they do seem to have issues with mounting external drives "quickly", but that could be a VirtualBox thing. Regardless of what you choose, I highly recommended grabbing a copy of VirtualBox, and loading your distros in there, to play around, decide what you like, then deploy on a machine "for real". Also - if you're looking for "tiny" try Small Damn Linux (50mb foot print). Have fun.
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Jeremy Falcon
Yes but that costs money. Plus you need some sort of inoculation :)
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Yes but that costs money. Plus you need some sort of inoculation :)
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Plus you need some sort of inoculation
That's true. I believe the medical term for it, is lobotomy.
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Hans, I'll throw my two cents into the Linux ring here: First off, as many others have already said, you need to know what it is you want out of it, really, since they're all kinda of different; of course, that doesn't stop you from adding to any of the distros. I run both Ubuntu and openSUSE and I like them both. I have found that GNOME is far more stable and user friendly than KDE, plus I don't care for the whole KDE Widget interface thing. Both Ubuntu and openSUSE provide a Software library, where you can go easily find Linux software to install. They are well organized and maintained. I have run both of them in VirtualBox without any problems, and for the most part, they perform well. Although they do seem to have issues with mounting external drives "quickly", but that could be a VirtualBox thing. Regardless of what you choose, I highly recommended grabbing a copy of VirtualBox, and loading your distros in there, to play around, decide what you like, then deploy on a machine "for real". Also - if you're looking for "tiny" try Small Damn Linux (50mb foot print). Have fun.
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Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTLDouglas Troy wrote:
50mb foot print
That is MASSIVE! I recommend MenuetOS. :rolleyes:
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What's the best free Linux distro these days?
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