[Nottingham] What distro?

[paul at paulmellors.net]

well to be honest i'd recommend Ubuntu Dapper as it is what i use, but that
Gnome based so hmmm what about Kubuntu?

I'd wait till june 1st until the release version but the beta seems sound
enough.

Paul



Quoting Jim <JimTheBad at ntlworld.com>:

> My colleague at work is thinking about 'making the switch' :)
>
> I was wondering what distro you recommend for the chap. He is very computer
> literate (he's a C++ developer) and even has experience of UNIX; he has used
> Knoppix and likes KDE, so a KDE-based distro would be good; and he is very
> much into the idea of a fully 64-bit system, so that is very important too.
>
> I would recommend SuSE as I use that myself, BUT I feel I can't recommend it
> to a beginner because of it's lack of out-of-the-box support for mp3s. (I'm
> aware of why this is and fully understand it, but still).
>
> So, what distro is
> a) Linux newbie friendly
> b) 64 bit throughout
> c) KDE-based
> d) Supports mp3
> e) Comes with free/OSS but non-GPL apps like Firefox and Netbeans
>
> Recommendations, chaps?
> TIA,
> Jim
>
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