On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Richard Creighton <ricreig@gmail.com> wrote:
OpenSUSE is without a doubt, the overall best distribution currently available EXCEPT that for the novice, it takes way too much knowledge to make it work "just like Windows". I think you are looking for something else TO START, and once you get your feet wet, gain experience, you will probably migrate toward openSUSE simply because it is so complete, but it is not a good starting point.
Oh I see.
As a former college teacher, I can comment on Fedora, RedHat and others with some degree of confidence. They are great programs and I recommend them highly, ... as teaching and learning and development tools and certainly for the experienced or professional user. They compete favorably with openSUSE in many ways but in my opinion, fail in the overall test of completeness or ease of use or maintainability, but are highly competent in virtually any area of comparison.
Ok. Means in all aspects, for professionals and developers open SUSE is better.
So, what *IS* the best? Ubuntu? or Kubuntu? No, certainly very popular, but in my opinion, and for reasons subject to much debate, way too commercial and subject to commercial manipulation of their code base should they choose to do so. Others that you mentioned like 'Cent'? Again, no, not because it is bad, but because it is not as well supported. No, the one I would recommend is
PCLinusOS
First, take a look at
I am first times heard about this OS, PCLinusOS. Ok, I would see that, but regarding it I have some doubts:- 1. For the persons of different jobs (like me), would it (PCLinusOS) be supported well? Means afters installation if problem comes, should I see the sites' help and there I would be supported. Today evening, my friend told me that he would be coming my home with the Fedora 10 book (he has bought but didn't use it, not a computer professional but a general store manager). 2. This book of F10 would help me in case if I am going with a simpler OS like PCLinusOS. As someone told kernels (must be part of OS) are same in majority of the Linux distros, I guess this book might help me in basics.
and PCLinuxOS for anyone that is a 'newbie' or is generally outside of range of normal help channels or just wants 'Windows' without the hassle and cost and insecurity or older machines, not well supported by some of the other modern distributions. I use it on my older machines too because it 'just works' and has a smaller footprint so it is great for a lot of my own uses as well <grin>.
So ultimately it could be a very good choice as an initiation in Linux. Frankly speaking, I get very less time in learning or at computers, but ***WHENEVER I GET*** I needed an OS (in Linux) which could be good to start, even if I sit sometimes at the box or other. For all this, as you say, this would be a good choice. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
You are in the right place. Linux will do all you want and much much more that you haven't even thought of yet.
Really nice to know that.
For a beginner, Linux has a learning curve just like everything else. Take a little time to learn, and you will be up and running in no time. After you have learned, give back to the community in the form of helping the next newcomer you come across.
Why not, sure.
As for which distro? All distros share a common kernel and core packages. The primary difference is how the different distros package Linux and the tools they provide to make things easier (or harder at times) on new users. OpenSuSE is a great place to start. I'm sure RedHad/Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva, etc.. all do a good job, but, notwithstanding a few speed bumps along the way, SuSE/OpenSuSE has been a user friendly solid choice as a Linux distribution for
<snip> Okay so over all open SUSE is good, but as Richard points, PCLOS, is the one for novices and then after having a very basic grip, I can switch to Open SUSE, wouldn't it be better than the case if I directly go with Open SUSE. (However for any distro it would take me a long time, as computers work not a regular work for me).
One other comment: I wish they had a mailing list, but they don't--they say they do, but the last posts were over a year ago. They use a forum format instead. The answers on the forum are pretty quick, but to have to go there is a PITA.
They don't have a mailing list support, but only the online tutorials? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's innovation.. -C Mingus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org