[Colchester] Whos using what?

Ian Snow ian.snow at btinternet.com
Mon Jul 24 21:49:19 BST 2006


I'd go with one of the buntu's such as Kubuntu or Ubuntu, you get apt seeing 
as its debian based and its more up to date.

On Monday 24 July 2006 21:39, chris pritchard wrote:
> well david, i would reccomend arch if your desktop is i686 (which it
> probably is), or gentoo if it is faster than 1.5 Ghz, gentoo is a
> compile everything distro, but i can help with the install (over SSH)
>
> On 7/24/06, David Lee <dave at chezbling.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm running Win XP and Debian (3.1 I think) on the desktop, WinXP on the
> > laptop, Win2k3 Server and Debian 3.1 on a couple of PCs I use as servers.
> >  I'm still a bit of a newbie and a bit scared of using linux full time on
> > the desktop.  installed debian mainly because of apt (as I've never got
> > on with compiling progs from scratch) but I understand debian is very
> > conversative with what it includes for stability reasons, i.e. i
> > understand the x server that comes with it is pretty old, etc. I install
> > x.org instead but wonder if there is lots of other stuff that could be
> > upgraded.  perhaps I should go for something other than debian for a
> > desktop...
> >
> > seeing as the work laptop has xp on which I can use if I can get really
> > scare of a linux desktop, maybe I should bite the bullet and wipe XP from
> > the desktop :)
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: colchester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Ian Snow
> > Sent: Mon 24/07/2006 21:28
> > To: colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: [Colchester] Whos using what?
> >
> >
> >
> > Just thought I start a thread to see who is using what.
> >
> > I'm currently using Arch Linux, I've also got a 64bit Kubuntu Dapper
> > Drake on this machine as well.
> >
> > In the past I've used Mandrake, Redhat and Gentoo.
> >
> > Ian
> >
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