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. TIA
On 11/15/05 12:34 PM, "lerninlinux@comcast.net"
Ubuntu
I've got it on a PPC and like it a lot. I have been trying to make time to put it on a Intel box, just haven't had time. -- Thanks, George You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do. Jerry Garcia
On 11/15/05, lerninlinux@comcast.net
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.
TIA
Ubuntu is very easy to install and get it working. If you need to have easy setup of a good workstation, go for it. I'm not sure about "playing" with it :) If you really want to try to grasp "linux", what is where, how the stuff compiles, etc., you may go with Gentoo, or Linux from Scratch. Now, this is a "playing" :) Cheers Sunny -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:34 am, 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.
TIA
Knoppix. Especially the bootable CD/DVD version for troubleshooting. Kubuntu/Ubuntu depending on your KDE vs GNOME preference. http://distrowatch.com/ is worth your time. Lots of information about lots of distributions there. They list the Top 100 for the last 6 months on the right hand side of the page. Any requirements such as install on less than 200MHz CPU, install in less than 500 MBs, live CD/DVD evals to start with, non-English based, etc? I agree with Kai; SUSE has kept me busy for years and after playing with some of the others I still like SUSE more than any of them. Stan
Le mardi 15 novembre 2005 à 12:23 -0600, Stan Glasoe a écrit :
I agree with Kai; SUSE has kept me busy for years and after playing with some of the others I still like SUSE more than any of them.
The same for me guys but anyway ubuntu could be a good choice too ; ) -- Laurent Renard
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.
Xandros (1), Mandriva (almost as many as SuSE), Knoppix (1, plus CDs), Fedora Core (1). Next try will probably be Kubuntu or genuine Debian. Forget Linspire unless you give it a whole disk to itself, and even then it really isn't right for someone already familiar with Linux. -- "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:34 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
What are your other used distro's? I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.
I've been testing Mepis http://www.mepis.com. It's very easy and a great-looking KDE desktop. Bryan ************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.4.2 KMail 1.8.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net **************************************
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 19:49, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:34 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
What are your other used distro's? I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.
I've been testing Mepis http://www.mepis.com. It's very easy and a great-looking KDE desktop.
You guys are no fun..;-) Slackware! Now that's a fun distro. I learned a lot while using it. I've still got a spare drive with it installed and it works quite nicely most of the time.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11 KDE 3.4.0 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 9:08pm up 2:18, 3 users, load average: 2.02, 2.14, 2.29
On 11/15/2005 02:10 PM, mike wrote:
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 19:49, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:34 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
What are your other used distro's? I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.
I've been testing Mepis http://www.mepis.com. It's very easy and a great-looking KDE desktop.
You guys are no fun..;-) Slackware! Now that's a fun distro. I learned a lot while using it. I've still got a spare drive with it installed and it works quite nicely most of the time.. Tsk tsk. You people and your install menus... if you want fun, go for Linux From Scratch.
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.
Well, lessee now. I've got SUSE 10 on three systems, SUSE 9.1 on another and one running OS/2 Warp 4.
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 17:34 +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.
Ubuntu (with kde installed), Xandros, Mandrica 2005, I'm considering axing the Xandros and replacing it with Debian, which I picked up on a DVD. I have Knoppix Live CD, and Lisnpire 5.0 Live (Hated It, very slow for live distro!!)
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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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.
TIA
Without a shadow of a doubt, XANDROS 3 DELUXE. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
If you want to learn more then first what desktop are you using at the moment? I'm willing to bet that you may have both KDE and Gnome installed on your SuSE PC but are actually only using one and not bothering with the other. If you use Gnome then install Kubuntu on the other PC. If it KDE you have on the SuSE PC then go for Ubuntu. Obviously do not install the rival desktop as well. My reasoning for suggesting this is that first you are able to learn about a Debian system without all the bloat of the full blown Deb Sarge. Secondly, you also get to learn about a different desktop without being tempted to log into what is already nice and safe and familiar. Xandros has been mentioned and is a fantastic distro. But perhaps not so much if you want to really learn more being as you are obviously already quite experienced with SuSE. Just some ideas :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
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