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| Thread ID: 52438 | 2004-12-19 04:18:00 | Which Distro do you use? | Ash M (46) | PC World Chat |
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| 305498 | 2004-12-19 08:54:00 | I voted "Other" because I don't know where my loyalties lie. Over the past few years I've tried (only installing, in some instances) the following (and there's probably a few I've left out): Red Hat 7.x Debian 3.0r1 Arch Linux 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 beta Euronode Minimal and Euronode Simple Firewall Fedora Core :stare: Ark Linux Xandros Mandrake 9.0 At the moment I've started investigating LFS - and I'm set, really, I just need more time on my hands... But my OS of common choice is still Windows :p |
agent (30) | ||
| 305499 | 2004-12-19 09:32:00 | Phil, as Jen says, give Yoper (http://www.yoper.com/) a try. It's a one CD install which of course you can add to and update from the repository. Mepis (http://www.mepis.org/) would be another to investigate IMO. It's Deb based, fairly bleeding edge but not to the extent Yoper is, aimed at desktop usage mainly for the standard version, can be got as a single Live CD with very good intsllation to HDD and hardware detection. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 305500 | 2004-12-19 09:37:00 | there's never an up to date rpm That's why I love debian, the apt get command allows you to get the latest version of anything... Disclaimer: Not everything. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 305501 | 2004-12-19 09:51:00 | the yoper install is brilliant, you partion your drive using QTParted and then install it in a matter of minutes, about 15 minutes which is really fast :eek: but dont be like me and have your hdd in the wrong IDE cable/slot and then yoper wont install :mad: ( i had it like this because i was taking out a old hdd :rolleyes: ) and also back up your windows os because no matter how many times i installed windows and partioned my drive, it stuffed up my ntfs partion which was a bummer :groan: but thats another story....... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 305502 | 2004-12-19 23:54:00 | Mandrake is not a bad distro | Dannz (1668) | ||
| 305503 | 2004-12-20 00:08:00 | c'mon gentoo..... | ILikeLinux (1669) | ||
| 305504 | 2004-12-20 06:27:00 | Xandros 2.01 because I have no hardware, sound & network issues. I have tried about 6 other distros every one had something I couldn't get to work. I intend to go to Xandros 3.0 soon.pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 305505 | 2004-12-20 06:28:00 | Mandrake is not a bad distro Yeah.. using Mandrake 10 as is, and not wishing to add to it, it probably isnt too bad.... However, i had a bit af a bad experiance.. pressf1.pcworld.co.nz After this, i installed the developement packages from the CD, made a real mess of the system, formatted, reinstalled selecting EVERYTHING gets installed, and still couldnt get what i wanted from it. This is why i dis it, but putting that and related issues aside, i have learnt alot from it, and hope that the lessons will be useful with my next distribution! :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 305506 | 2004-12-20 07:22:00 | teh easy way out: Lycoris | Edward (31) | ||
| 305507 | 2007-09-04 11:00:00 | PCLinux OS on a desktop and the laptop, Debian on a desktop and the same laptop again, a pair of XP desktops, and also on the long suffering laptop. That is it currently. I started with Peanut, still like it, but haven't tried any recent iterations. |
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