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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.
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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http://obamacaretruth.org/I haven't done the Linux thing in a couple years, so my opinion is a bit out of date, but I found Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandrake to all be pretty good home desktop OSes (Haven't done much *nix dev in recent years).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
Jeremy Falcon
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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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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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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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Why would I want to get my nuts chopped-off?
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What's the best free Linux distro these days?
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I am using a highly customized version of Arch linux and a kernel compiled from source. It is a pain to configure everything by hand. But if you enjoy doing it, Arch is worth trying.
Best wishes, Navaneeth
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I am using a highly customized version of Arch linux and a kernel compiled from source. It is a pain to configure everything by hand. But if you enjoy doing it, Arch is worth trying.
Best wishes, Navaneeth
Navaneeth, I've been meaning to email you for a while now. You once mentioned customizing Emacs with CEDET and other stuff to suit your C++ coding IDE needs. Would you be interested in making an article out of that?
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Personally I'm using Ubuntu, although I'm thinking of setting up a proper dev environment for which I'm thinking I'll use Fedora. Arch is good if you want to play around more as you need to do everything. Mint is great if you're a new user and want everything to just work Really just try a few and see what works for you :-D
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Personally, I prefer Gentoo Linux. I use it as my main development PC at work. We also are starting to use CentOS for more servers (slowly migrating away from Solaris). I use Gentoo at home as a desktop OS, and on other PCs for media (with MythTV). Another distribution that I have been using for years is ClarkConnect (they recently changed their name to ClearOS). It is a great little gateway/firewall distro that is based on CentOS. And one more ... Xubuntu Linux is nice for an older machine. If all you need is basic internet/email/office applications, this will work just fine. Lots of choices out there ...
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desktop: linux mint, ubuntu, fedora server: debian, centos, ubuntu server
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I have been using fedora since it was redhat 6. It is very stable and well supported through its community. I have been using it in a production environment in a multi-server role and have never regretted going down this road. I do like what I hear about CentOS but wonder how it might differ from fedora (really) Word on the street is ubuntu is probably the friendlier entry point into linux. The important thing is to get and learn Linux of any flavor and discover how to make a computer work for you. Linux - "set it and forget it" I have a fedora system that I shipped 500 miles away for a branch office to plug into their network. They plugged in the cat5 and power and - i just checked - it has been running 399 days now without rebooting. (of course now that I said something...) Long Live Linux!