[Sderby] Re: Linux Operating System

[michael]

Hi James,
I have tried both Mandrake and RedHat but could not get on with either of 
them
I have not heard of or tried Fedora.
 I have tried to download the SuSE 9.2 live
disc from the SuSE web site but with my slow connection I have only down
loaded 23% yet I was going to try the program on my pent 4 3000 to see
what happens but I think that I will have to give up on that one.
My idea is that while the video are being rendererd and writen onto dvds
on my pentium computer I will be able to try using linux on the new computer
Thank you once again for your help.
Michael.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael" <michael at mjhall.co.uk>
To: "South Derby LUG General Mailing List" <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] Re: Linux Operating System


> Hi James,
> Thank you for your help I need the large hard drive for video editing and 
> burning dvds and cds both with Videos and Photographs otherwise I would 
> have a smaller computer setup.
> Michael.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Gibbon" <james.gibbon at virgin.net>
> To: "South Derby LUG General Mailing List" <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:52 PM
> Subject: [Sderby] Re: Linux Operating System
>
>
>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:49:33 -0000
>> "michael" <michael at mjhall.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Members,
>>> I have just bought a AMD 64 3200 computer with a dual layer dvd writer 
>>> and a 200 gig hard drive.
>>> I have a copy of SuSE 9.1 but wondered if anyone can tell me if this is 
>>> the best version to use or can sugest a better version or another linux 
>>> opperating system.
>>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> There is no 'best' Linux distro, all the various brands have
>> their supporters and detractors.  I personally favour
>> Mandrake or Fedora for my main machine as I find that they
>> are friendly and my favourite applications are well supported
>> (I use synaptic to obtain and install the rpm files).  I like to use
>> Slackware for my laptop; it's an older machine with less memory
>> and runs much snappier and more responsively, even using
>> KDE, than any of the other distros I've tried.  That won't be
>> an issue for you though I don't think, since you have a nice
>> modern whizz-bang box.
>>
>> I've often had showstopper problems with SuSE, and
>> haven't got on with it in general, but others have had
>> different experiences of course, inevitably since we all
>> use different combinations of hardware, window managers
>> and applications, and differing levels of expertise and
>> experience.
>>
>> James
>>
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