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| 1294043 | 2012-08-20 11:56:00 | Indeed, the curse is the confusion, how to make the decision . For me it comes down to that which is the core of open source: Community . Do the research when it comes to making a decision . If the distro has a vibrant community with a large spread and lots going on the maillists, good support lists or forums, then it is likely to survive . Development will continue and there will always be an upgrade . Personally I like to see corporate support as well but that's not completely necessary I don't think, but those that don't are often at the hardcore end of the spectrum . So OpenSuSE, SLE , Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Mandriva and Mageia . All of these have good solid, enthusiastic, well sourced and managed communities . The rest are interesting but not for me . That is not to say of course that one shouldn't give them a shot . The biggest single advantage of Linux is choice, however reject any distro that insists on installing on a single partition . /HOME in it's own partition is the linux way of making that choice available always . Oh and Rod, about Sheldon's favorite Linux OS . The writers got it wrong, Sheldon would never let someone else compile his code, he could possibly go for Slackware but I think he'd be Gentoo, just because . :D |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1294044 | 2012-08-20 12:19:00 | Oh and Rod, about Sheldon's favorite Linux OS. The writers got it wrong, Sheldon would never let someone else compile his code, he could possibly go for Slackware but I think he'd be Gentoo, just because. :D That's what I thought too. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1294045 | 2012-08-20 13:22:00 | /HOME in it's own partition is the linux way of making that choice available always. Oh and Rod, about Sheldon's favorite Linux OS. The writers got it wrong, Sheldon would never let someone else compile his code, he could possibly go for Slackware but I think he'd be Gentoo, just because. :D Yes, I certainly agree with having a separate /home partition as it makes it so much easier to upgrade (clean install, which I prefer) or switch distros. I think you're correct about Sheldon too, definitely a Gentoo user I'd say! :thumbs: |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1294046 | 2012-08-22 08:14:00 | Just added Zorin-os-6 to my home theatre system. Nice. Now, how do I remove/uninstall Mint 13 from the tripple boot & retain the duel boot with xp? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
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