[Wylug-help] Which distro?

[Roger]

First, thanks to all for your suggestions.

On 22/07/2011 11:02, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Roger wrote:
>> A friend is at last becoming disenchanted with 'Doze.
<snip>
> I'd say you've spotted the important bits, the long-term support. That
> gives
> you a choice of things like Ubuntu LTS / Scientific Linux / CentOS. If
> it was
> me, I'd be picking between SL and CentOS. That keeps him good until his
> machine goes pop.

His machine been staggering on for a long time now (with the occasional 
new HD), but XP has been perceived to be gradually slowing down (is it 
paranoia to suspect an M$ strategy to build this into the innumerable 
updates?)  That's why I'm recommending a clean new installation of Linux!

I use CentOS (64) on my server, but the mouse support seems flaky on the 
odd occasion I use it as a workstation (it stops working until I reboot 
- something I don't normally expect from Linux) but I can't be bothered 
to fix that since I rarely do use it as a workstation and it performs 
flawlessly in its main role as a RAID file-server...

Ubuntu has now been suggested by three people, so I'm tempted to go that 
way, however, you suggest "Ubuntu LTS", while Simon Greenwood suggests 
"Ubuntu 10.04"

Please, what, if anything, is the difference?

Again, thanks to all who are giving help.

R

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