[Wolves] Desktop Linux distro.

[Peter Cannon]

On Monday 05 Jul 2004 23:21, Jono Bacon wrote:

> Stuart Langridge wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> >> On Monday 05 Jul 2004 19:51, bambam at opendildonics.org spurted:
> >>> What distro is best on the desktop? I'm basically after
> >>> something that will outstrip debian for not having to deal
> >>> with so many details

Windows 2000 -LOL :-D


Ow alright

Mandrake
Best distro for newbies looks and feels like windows in my view 98% hardware 
detection very very little setup tinkering required.

Suse
Very slick lots of good bits of proprietary software my installation is having 
some problems but I think thats my fault not the software 99% hardware 
detection may need some tinkering.

Redhat
All hail RedHat, Cried like a baby when they ended the free version I had RH9 
Very very very slick looked good just prior to the change you could have been 
forgiven for thinking you were on a Windows machine (Thats not a bad thing 
thats good. If people are happy/comfortable they'll change) 99.8% hardware 
detection (I would have scored it higher but it f*&$@ed up detecting my 
graphics card until Mr Google came up with a fix). needed tinkering.

Fedora Core2
Very very good I personally wouldn't call it bleeding edge now (But it will be 
when FC3 comes out) lots of nice apps 98% hardware detection I don't have any 
major problems myself but I know others do.

Ive never used Debian but Ive heard it needs configuring skills to get the 
full benefit of this distro. 

I have used Knoppix, Morphix, Vector, Gentoo, Slackware 
Zzzzzz.................. they are all pretty much the same.

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