What Linux do you run?

A Linux distro is like a car, you love the particular make and model or just hate it.
Luckily with Linux you can pick and choose your flavour until you find what is right for you.

It will be a sad day indeed if the only distro people pick up and install is only Ubuntu, experiment!
 
Smiley_lauf said:
so does SimplyMepis--this one is a Debian derivative and just works. PCLinuxOs is RPM based, and in my experience, has been harder to understand than Debian based Linux. But each to his own.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS uses APT-RPM, based on Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic Package Manager, a GUI front-end to APT, in order to add, remove or update packages.

If there is enough memory on the machine, and an active network connection, the Live CD can update packages. PCLinuxOS is also designed to be easy to remaster after installation, creating one's own personalized Live CD, using the mklivecd tool.
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That does not mean it is based upon Debian, they only use a Debian tool (package management). Originally PCLinuxOS was a fork of Mandrake/Mandriva.

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Reading the posts again I see what you are getting at, because it uses the same package manager as Debian bases distros it should not be a problem to get a handle on it.
 
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MyWorld said:
A Linux distro is like a car, you love the particular make and model or just hate it.
Luckily with Linux you can pick and choose your flavour until you find what is right for you.

It will be a sad day indeed if the only distro people pick up and install is only Ubuntu, experiment!
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amen.

i run debian sid, arch, gentoo and fedora. debian freebsd is my next project.

the nice thing about linux is that you can set aside 15GB for the install parttion and then have a shared home partition and a partition to store stuff.

making it easy to share profiles for ff, chrome. opera, thunderbird, evolution etc
 
MyWorld said:
That does not mean it is based upon Debian, they only use a Debian tool (package management). Originally PCLinuxOS was a fork of Mandrake/Mandriva.

EDIT:
Reading the posts again I see what you are getting at, because it uses the same package manager as Debian bases distros it should not be a problem to get a handle on it.
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A lot has changed with this distro--when I started in 2006, it was a fork of Mandrake, and as such I struggled to get my ATI card drivers installed. When Ubuntu got to 6.06, it was a breath of fresh air. Simply Mepis also is great and I believe they have gone back to mother Debian rather than Ubuntu. Besides there is a plethora of sites providing help and support for debian based distro's (ubuntu is a perfect example)> as noobie, it is a safe place to start.
 
D3x said:
Hey Guys,

I hope someone here can answer a question for me.

I have an HP notebook which I keep in the lounge at home which I purely use for wireless ADSL, browsing & downloading. Lately I have got some funny spyware, my browsers have been stuffing around & I got some dodgy things running in the background.

I got 2 buddies who work in IT & they hate windows with a passion. They use Mac & Linux & they say I should use Linux as there are SO many advantages. Which version of Linux do you guys reckon I go with? Taking into consideration what I use the notebook for, very basic browsing & downloading.

Suggestions & perhaps why?

:)
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Definitely Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition - Its awsum - can do everything you want, cant get viruses, and it comes with all that nifty software like OpenOffice.org which is full office suite almost identical to Office 2007....
bottom line: get it, its awsum...
 
koffiejunkie said:
That's enough reason to stay the hell away from it. :sick:
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I have not tried the latest version but they were surprisingly stable and reliable. I remember back in the day I installed Madrake, could not get something to work, hear of PCLinuxOS, tried it and it just worked. I would not toss the baby with the water, PCLinuxOS has some potential for the newbies.
 
MyWorld said:
I have not tried the latest version but they were surprisingly stable and reliable. I remember back in the day I installed Madrake, could not get something to work, hear of PCLinuxOS, tried it and it just worked. I would not toss the baby with the water, PCLinuxOS has some potential for the newbies.
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Was being factitious, but nevertheless, my worst memories are from working with Mandrake. Anyway, my first distro came on two stiffies - I'm not exactly a newbie :)
 
Smiley_lauf said:
Go for Ubuntu (classic Gnome) or Linux Mint (Ubuntu with some extra's)-
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Logicklz said:
Linux Mint because everything works out of the box,
There is no need to install codecs for movies or music etc...

And the best thing you will find out about Linux is that there is always someone who will help you out if you run in any problems but remember to google search on your problem before making a post in a forum.
Google solves about 95% of all my problems with Linux.
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DUDE!@##$%% said:
Definitely Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition - Its awsum - can do everything you want, cant get viruses, and it comes with all that nifty software like OpenOffice.org which is full office suite almost identical to Office 2007....
bottom line: get it, its awsum...
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Thanks for the replies guys. I tried 2 x live cd's out. Lubuntu & Mint. I really liked both of them but Mint seemed to have the edge. I installed Mint last night & my machine is DEF running better. Things just move faster, open quicker etc etc. I am sure I will be happy with the conversion.

I know for there will be a Linux version of just about every program out there but does anyone know if you can install Blackberry's Desktop Manager on Linux? I will check it out today sometime but if someone here knows already, just a yes or no would be cool.

Thanks again.
 
D3x said:
I know for there will be a Linux version of just about every program out there but does anyone know if you can install Blackberry's Desktop Manager on Linux? I will check it out today sometime but if someone here knows already, just a yes or no would be cool.
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I can't say offhand - I don't use a Blackberry ;)
But ultimately, if there is no native application that performs the same job, you could always try to run it through wine.

Sorry, I guess that's not quite a yes or no anwser :)
 
LOL

It's cool wishblade, I was being lazy. I will look later but would have been nice to know anyway. :)
 
D3x said:
I know for there will be a Linux version of just about every program out there but does anyone know if you can install Blackberry's Desktop Manager on Linux?
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hey, I just Googled a bit--these hits may be handy when you are troubleshooting this problem. The second hit on Ubuntuforums has a Step-by-Step guide.

Let us know how you fair--it may be handy for others.

S
 
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D3x, it's interesting to hear you say you prefer Mint over Ubuntu. I've used Ubuntu since back in the Feisty Fawn days (was that 7.04??) and recently gave Mint a LiveCD test drive. Within a week, I had switched my notebook, my two PCs and my iMac over to Mint. I can't specify any one feature or function that prompted the switch, but I'm now a happy Mint user.
 
Super Silver said:
D3x, it's interesting to hear you say you prefer Mint over Ubuntu. I've used Ubuntu since back in the Feisty Fawn days (was that 7.04??) and recently gave Mint a LiveCD test drive. Within a week, I had switched my notebook, my two PCs and my iMac over to Mint. I can't specify any one feature or function that prompted the switch, but I'm now a happy Mint user.
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Well, this is the first time I am using Linux so don't think its an "educated" decision. I just liked Mint & what it came with originally. Still getting used to it but so far I am enjoying the road less traveled.

:)
 
Fedora 13 for me too.
I've tried out loads of distros, but with F13 I have been extremely happy. Been running it now since launch.
 
Tried Mint 7 for a couple of weeks last year, used to hang a lot. So I switched to Fedora 11.
 
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