On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:34:26PM +0000, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
I have Suse 10 installed, and have a secondary machine I was looking to install another distro for playing/learning. What are your other used distro's?
I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.
Gentoo is not on my favorites list. If you want to do a build from scratch do a google for ROCK Linux. It's where Gentoo stole their idea. Much better. Knoppix isn't exactly something I'd install, and Ubuntu, though popular, is just Debian made pretty. Here is a list of things i'd recommend. I've got over 100 OSs and used almost every version of Linux and BSD so I do have a great idea of what works and how: SUSE is the absolute best for anything. Slackware is my second distro and I love it too. If you want to pick it reply to the list and I'll link to some tutorials I've written for it. PC-DOS Free BSD (I saw someone reply saying there is no GUI by default. this isn't true at all, it uses X windows just like Linux does and you install it during the install just like in Linux.) Maybe they meant it doesn't boot into a GUI when it's done. If you know Linux well the learning curve isn't hard at all. May want to check out Vector Linux too
TIA
Allen
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