[Wylug-help] Which distro?

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> Roger
>
>> What would people here recommend as a good option for someone with
>> modest requirements, but who wants their installation to be
>> supported for as long as possible?
>
> Other than Ubuntu....
>
> http://www.linuxmint.com/
> http://www.pclinuxos.com/
> http://fedoraproject.org/

I wouldn't recommend fedora for a system that you want to be supported as long
as possible.  Fedora 15 will fall out of support in what, less than a year
from now?

> http://www.debian.org/ (graphical installation)
>
> Most of the others are good but these are easy to install.  I would
> include openSuSE but you need a lot of hardware for that.  Lot of RAM.

Does OpenSUSE have higher system requirements than Ubuntu or Fedora?

http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware_requirements

This wouldn't seem to suggest so.

jh