[SC.LUG] Choosing a distro - KDE or Gnome

[Damian Parker]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 00:36 +0100, John Southern wrote:
> <Extra flame proof pants>For distros I would look at something such as a Debian based one - Ubuntu or Kubuntu because this has apt-get rather than rpm. But again this is not a hard rule as Debian based distributions should be able to use Alien to install rpm packages and rpm based distributions should be able to use Apt4rpm. <pulls tongues at Slackware and Gentoo users></Extra flame proof pants>
> 
> For fun I run :-
> Suse - was easy to set up the firewall
> Fedora - I know one of the maintainers
> Ubuntu - Wanted to see the installer and it sort of stayed
> Kubuntu - As above and probably used on the family main machine
> Debian - Hurrah the one true....Sorry wrong script...Used it since forever.
> Damn Small / Puppy / Feather Great for USB booting
> Knoppix - Ideal for testing a box to check hardware
> Mandriva - Kids like the install and has good printer support
> YellowDog - PPC version
> Dyne:Bolic - Amazing multimedia and a neat way of building a distro rather than the usual Knoppix copies
> IPCop - firewall
> Smoothwall - Old firewall that just keeps on going
> FreeBSD - Honest I thought it was a Linux...
> Mandrake Games Edition - It came with a Sims game that still works.
> Caldera - Anyone else remember the Lizard networking tool?
> Beyond that I have a couple of boxes that run a sort of home-brew distro that is really me just playing about with the Linux from scratch documentation.
> 
> Vector - Was a good idea at the time... but then again so was BearOS / Phlak / Auditor / BlackCat and Vine - Where I found namura search.
> 
> What I want to try is Mephis and Arch (the last has a mirror site at Parrs Wood School in Didsbury).
> I must also get around to making a new Xwoaf / Xdenu floppy system
> </Flame proof suit>l
> 
> Just remember Vi is the true way...
> 
> John
> 

100% Agree with vi, but really you want a gentoo :)  just remember it
will take 1 to 3 days to emerge kde-meta now :) but its faster than
anything else living.


-- 
Damian Parker <damian at damosoft.co.uk>
Damosoft
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