Getting back on the Linux box....

[Linchpin]

Ok.. so i powered it up the other day... 1st time in over 3 years i think!

Was running Fedora Core 3... now upgraded to release 5.

Not sure if i like the way fedora has gone.. any suggestions?

I know some bits about Linux systems.... not all that knowlegable though.

Any suggestions welcome

Kev

[Debaser]

Kubuntu,SimplyMepis, and then my personal fav. wee little Damn Small Linux.

Those are my reccomendations. There is so much out there. If you want more insight go to www.distrowatch.com.

If you want to play around with a non-linux but free os. Aside from Aros.. check out SyllableOS. Its a fork of the non-defunct Atheos. Even comes equiped with an Amiga skin/theme for your desktop. www.syllable.org

Have fun!

[skurk]

Personally I prefer Ubuntu.  Very user-friendly, "apt" like Debian, pretty colours.

I've used RH and Fedora too, never setting my foot in RPM hell again.

[Linchpin]

No more RPM Hell... hahaha!

Oddly... the package management was one of the things i thought better about the older Fedora distro's ...

[coldfish]

Debaser wrote:
Kubuntu,SimplyMepis, and then my personal fav. wee little Damn Small Linux.



Have fun!

Wot he said +1.

I'm running Kubuntu and DSL, the latter is great for getting old machines back into useful service, and its quick on its feet.  

DSL would be my fav' too, no clutter and it just works.

[odin]

Hmmm...that Syllable thing looks interesting, downloading it right now.

[Debaser]

odin wrote:
Hmmm...that Syllable thing looks interesting, downloading it right now.

Yeah.. I just installed it a few days ago. Its pretty cool. Very fast. and Ha! get this - they REALLY need developers! (sound familiar) Let me know what you think odin. I really liking it!

[persia]

Take a look at Sabayon Linux (sabayonlinus.org), pretty, fast, cutting edge.  It's got it all.  And I haven't found a (modern) computer that it won't install on.  It just works.

[Linchpin]

Excellent

Thanks for the suggestions guys, Ill keep them in mind when selecting a new distro.

Any more suggestions... keep em coming

[Linchpin]

Yay!

This is my 1st posting from my new Ubuntu box

Wow... what a difference compared to the old fedora days!

all working really well, through a KVM switch so i have the winXP box and the Ubuntu box both online and on together.

Now to install software... !

Cheers again

Kev

[trekiej]

Is there anything specific about fedora?  I installed it on my 64 bit machine.  It found everything.  What do people not like about RPM?
Thanks.
Rick :-?

[Piru]

@trekiej

RPM Hell

It's a bit technical, but I am sure there are bits there even end user can recognize (the dependecy mess).

[LoadWB]

@Piru

I find most of my users are co-dependent ;-)

[InTheSand]

Heh! Nice "RPM Hell" essay!!!

At least that sort of junk doesn't happen with Ubuntu... The package manager "just works" and resolves its own dependencies...

... though of course it does mean that Ubuntu-specific repositories containing what you're after have to exist in the first place!

 - Ali

[motorollin]

Yes I remember RPM hell from my Slackware/SuSE days. "Package A needs packages B and C". Ok, go and get packages B and C. "Package B needs packages D and E. Package C needs packages F and G". It's bad enough having o hunt around for the correct versions, but when some of them are only available as source, I give up. I don't expect to have to install a development environment and compile software just so I can install a new mail client.

I think a lot of these problems have been resolved with distros which have a dedicated package database. I'm talking about distros like Fedora, Ubuntu, and even Debian. Their packages are tailored to the distro, they're all pre-compiled, and the package managers recorsively resolve the dependencies.

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moto