Which linux should I install?[views:3037][posts:27]_______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:41am - the_reverend ""] I just need to dual boot my vista lappy with a linux flavor so that I can rsync RTTP with a drive at my house. What flavor should I load? Fedora? Ubuntu? straight debian? gentoo? slackware? Knoppix hd-boot? |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:42am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""] Windows ME |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:44am - darkwor ""] if you just have a specific purpose and know the commands, just do slackware, go minimalistic. i'm not a unix guy so that's all the help you get from me. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:44am - reimroc ""] ubuntu, fedora or debian |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:45am - darkwor ""] Windows ME is the best choice. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:47am - the_reverend ""] thank you reimroc for your decisiveness. I'm glad you aren't picking the resturant for lunch. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:48am - RustyPS NLI ""] the gay one |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:48am - the_reverend ""] dark: I have never used slackware. it's the only distrib I've never touched. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:48am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""] OS/2 WARP |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:50am - reimroc ""] lol there are so many versions it makes choosing hard. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:52am - the_reverend ""] yeah, but they all have their pluses and minuses. I know RHE the best. but I like ubuntu or debian the best cause the apt manager rules. Gentoo makes the smallest installs. Problem is that I don't really know it well or truly how to use emerge. emerge seems better than apt. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:53am - the_reverend ""] and everything kicks yum's ass. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:54am - reimroc ""] gentoo is good if you're more of a power user. i personally like unbuntu or debian because they're the most user friendly. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 11:57am - the_reverend ""] I installed ubuntu for the usability on a PC that was going to be a mythTV box, what a year later turned out to be bad RAM crippled that system. It's now running win7 after I installed debian. I find debian to have more to it. Plus ubuntu was proven that it killed laptop hard drives faster that it should. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:05pm - reimroc ""] wow i didn't even know that little fact about unbuntu killing laptop drives. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:07pm - the_reverend ""] it probably doesn't in the current version, but this was 2 years ago when I was setting it up: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1742258 rebunked http://mynewlaptop.blogspot.com/2007/11/ca...tu-damage-my-hard-drive-no-way.html |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:09pm - xanonymousx ""] http://lifehacker.com/5170138/five-best-linux-distributions |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:11pm - darkwor ""] the_reverend said:dark: I have never used slackware. it's the only distrib I've never touched. i never have either, but i think you can tell it to give you a basic shell and a terminal, so if you're looking for a minimal OS for doing one thing, there ya go |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:18pm - the_reverend ""] so... you are coming up with a general comment on a linux flavor that you have never used. I should start doing sports announcing and commentary. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:19pm - the_reverend ""] slackware is just like any other linux set up and it's just as huge when you install it as every other linux. [img] windows managers galore. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:19pm - reimroc ""] pwned |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:19pm - the_reverend ""] and if I wanted just something tiny, I would install DSL. it was 50MB last time I looked. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:21pm - the_reverend ""] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:22pm - secthammer ""] yeah DSL is retardo small...haven't tried it out yet though so not sure how it is with hardware support and features. THE POWER OF THE COMMUNITYLOLOL *makes fapping gesture* |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 19,2009 12:23pm - the_reverend ""] I was making knoppix distribs for my company in 2005 and looked at DSL so I could get our xGB of data on to a CD. |
| __________________________________ [Aug 3,2017 7:10pm - susurrate ""] old news is old but Linux Mint 18 is pretty excellent these days. |
| __________________________________ [Aug 3,2017 7:12pm - susurrate ""] I prefer Mate over Cinnamon but it seems like cinnamon is pretty popular. |
| _____________________________________ [Aug 4,2017 9:42am - the_reverend ""] I just use debian, centos, or ubuntu. |