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Cool. Just ordered 10 copies of Ubuntu Linux. Totally free. Even delivery.

Pity it's a GNOME system. :P
 
It's not a GNOME system - that's merely the desktop it defaults to. If you want, you can use something else instead - that's the beauty of Linux. Ubuntu is actually based on the Debian distro...
 
Compl33t said:
Cool. Just ordered 10 copies of Ubuntu Linux. Totally free. Even delivery.

Pity it's a GNOME system. :P
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Its gonna be a long wait for you. I ordered myself some copies last year and mandatory 6 weeks has long elapsed. So be prepaid to wait as I'm still waiting. Heck, why dont u just blow your cap and go to Stellenbosch Uni ftp site...and get it there?
 
I tried Ubuntu, then Mepis. I'm currently using Mepis.

BTW, I've never had such a simple install. Even easier than Windows - and it defaults to KDE ;)
 
Yeah, I ordered my discs in October last year, they arrived in jan (10 live cd's and 10 install CD's), then again, when I ordered, no CD's had yet gone to press, I personally use it now as my OS of choice, I've grown to love Gnome, and whatever KDE apps are required, can run as long as the librarys are installed.
Ubuntu all the way!

just took a look on distrowatch, its fascinating how when I installed it, It was a prerelease with no publicity, and is now #4 on distrowatch!!
 
Linux Noob

Hi Guys.

I am a bit of a Linux Noob, but I wish to discover this operating system in due course.
I have only played around with Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 and it looks cool.

I would like to download a few ISO's at the end of the month. What do you suggest. This Ubuntu looks interesting.
 
That Ubuntu is a nice package - mine shipped in a double cardboard folder case with 2CD's - the live CD and a single install CD.

Not a bad distribution, but not an install for total beginners.
If you've installed Windows from scratch before - iow, creating a partition, booting with a DOS disk, formatting and installing, you should be OK with Ubuntu

It's not a graphical install like Mandrake, but rather a curses based install.
I believe the install process is similar to Debian but a little easier.

I'm sticking with Slackware though - with KDE 3.3.2.

Gnome is sloooooow compared with KDE, there's no dought about that.
 
BTTB said:
Hi Guys.

I am a bit of a Linux Noob, but I wish to discover this operating system in due course.
I have only played around with Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 and it looks cool.

I would like to download a few ISO's at the end of the month. What do you suggest. This Ubuntu looks interesting.
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May I recommend SimplyMEPIS 3.3? Available at www.mepis.org, it is 1 ISO [compressed], which is a combined live / install CD. It loads up from the CD, auto-detects most devices, loads up KDE, and provides you with an install icon, which then copies the sytem to HDD. All this without having to know Linux.

I suggest this as a Linux noob myself. It is always easier to learn with a working system... oh, and Mepis is also based on Debian.

One last thing - I was able to set up my iBurst using Mepis. I've not ever been able to do that with any other distro I've tried, including FreeBSD [I know, it's not Linux :D].
 
Raithlin said:
May I recommend SimplyMEPIS 3.3? Available at www.mepis.org, it is 1 ISO [compressed], which is a combined live / install CD. It loads up from the CD, auto-detects most devices, loads up KDE, and provides you with an install icon, which then copies the sytem to HDD. All this without having to know Linux.

I suggest this as a Linux noob myself. It is always easier to learn with a working system... oh, and Mepis is also based on Debian.

One last thing - I was able to set up my iBurst using Mepis. I've not ever been able to do that with any other distro I've tried, including FreeBSD [I know, it's not Linux :D].
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Messy desktop aswell with those partition icons splattered on the desktop. Similar to knoppiX 3.7.

I'm playing around with the Suse-Gnome-Live CD at the moment to see how it goes before deciding on the massive DVD download.
For Hardware detection and setup as a tux-noob myself I found the knoppix live cd to be the best. But I'm sticking with Ubuntu as an installed distro.
 
stepper said:
Messy desktop aswell with those partition icons splattered on the desktop. Similar to knoppiX 3.7.
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Granted, but it's a simple checkbox tick to remove them.

stepper said:
I'm playing around with the Suse-Gnome-Live CD at the moment to see how it goes before deciding on the massive DVD download.
For Hardware detection and setup as a tux-noob myself I found the knoppix live cd to be the best. But I'm sticking with Ubuntu as an installed distro.
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Knoppix is great as a live CD, but it can't install, as Mepis can. You get the best of both worlds.

I'm not going to argue further. I have posted my suggestion - and everyone has there own favourite. That's the beauty of it. There's something for everyone out there. :)
 
stepper, you should be able to buy Suse locally ?
Personally, if your happy with Ubuntu, I wouldn't bother downloading the Suse DVD unless your a hopeless Linux distribution tester like myself :D

I've been punishing myself lately with Arch Linux on my home dual boot win box ...

http://www.archlinux.org/

If you want fast, it's the distribution for you !
The full install CD is around 580 meg - it doesn't ship with KDE or GNOME and is most definately for people comfortable with the Linux terminal and editing config files.

I also just downloaded damnsmalllinux :-
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

50 meg ISO file -haven't got around to trying it yet
 
bb_matt said:
stepper, you should be able to buy Suse locally ?
Personally, if your happy with Ubuntu, I wouldn't bother downloading the Suse DVD unless your a hopeless Linux distribution tester like myself :D
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LOL, I thought I was alone as a serial linux distro tester. The thing is Ubuntu is great but I can't use my old TV card and my printer with it. So I'm still searching for a 'perfect' distro for me. I'm aiming to use windows only @ work.
 
You'll probably need to do some kernel hacking to get your TV card and printer working - or that's what it sounds like - it's not always dependent on the distribution.

TV cards are notoriously fickle with Linux - what make of TV card and printer do you have ?

I dunno if you've done kernel compiling before ?
It can be quite daunting at first, in fact, it's definately daunting, but nothing you can't handle with a bit of reading up.
 
For those wanting the flexibility and real freedoms offered by *nix, you won't go wrong trying Gentoo - be warned, however: it's not for the faint-hearted, and newbies please stay away, unless you're willing to RTFM and devote hours of toil!
One of my biggest issues with *nix has been dependency hell - Gentoo have solved this very nicely with a script suite called Portage, which is even better than apt-get, IMHO. Doubt very much if Gentoo will ever become the predominant distro, however - its too geek-oriented, but that suits me to a tee...
 
bb_matt said:
TV cards are notoriously fickle with Linux - what make of TV card and printer do you have ?
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old Flyvideo 98 Tv card and Lexmark X1100 printer
bb_matt said:
I dunno if you've done kernel compiling before ?
It can be quite daunting at first, in fact, it's definately daunting, but nothing you can't handle with a bit of reading up.
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I have not done kernel compiling b4, I will look it up if I have time.
 
One last question...which distros currently come with kernel 2.6.9 or higher? I know 2.6.10 was the last release...oh and btw, for noobs, Xandros 3.0 looks quite cool. Looks like you have to buy it, though.
 
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