[Mr. PC Doc]

Hey guys, wahts your favorite linux distro?

[tnik]

atm, it is Gentoo, but if not that, slackware..

[Whiteskin]

For me, though i've only used gentoo for a little (A little too time comsuming on the install, especially on a 266), my favorite so far is debian. Great usability features, but also still linux if you know what i mean. Its not like lindows which is trying to hard to emulate windows.

[tsunam]

hehe time consuming, is a 266 for compiling :P.

I'll admit i like gentoo, and once i got it installed have loved it. Though getting it up and running is a bit more time consuming then other distro's.

Best advice that anyone can give, is this: Read information about distro's that you are interested in, and or forums. WHen you find one that you think have all that you want go with it.

<---the p3 500 gentoo machine RAR! 51 hours to compile xfree and kde

[utanja]

i run RedHAt from way back to RH6 and just recently upgrade from RH8 to RH9....howvever...i am considering changing over to slackware...
i have try Gentoo and Debian...and find the installs veryu time consuming and somewhat confusing....but it someone has a good outline of how to install Gentoo or even debian is would consider it...

[tsunam]

for gentoo, go here for the install doc's can't get much better then those . Follow them from the beginning and you'll do fine.

[Whiteskin]

Debian is simple, once you are used to a linux installer. The most confusing thing is that it allows you to do things out of order. Take a look here for the most detailed guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install

[mobo]

Originally posted by Whiteskin:
Debian is simple, once you are used to a linux installer. The most confusing thing is that it allows you to do things out of order. Take a look here for the most detailed guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install

What iso disks did you use and in what order. I had someone tell me to use 1 & 5 and to use disk five to start the installation.....Sound Correct ?

[Whiteskin]

For debian? I just downloaded the first ISO, popped it into the drive, and away i went. By the time you get to iso 5, all the packages there are extremely esoteric.

[shadowcat]

Originally posted by tsunam:
for gentoo, go here for the install doc's can't get much better then those . Follow them from the beginning and you'll do fine.

I agree. Also, all the mistakes I made also helped me learn some of the major commands in linux.

As a warning, it's not a "plug and play" OS like Windoze, so don't expect it to be simple. It also can take quite a while if you have dial-up...

[tnik]

actually gentoo can be a PnP OS, It all depends on what type of kernel image you choose

[Whiteskin]

Same with any linux distro.

[AbvAvgUser]

RedHat for desktop is no longer available. Its now Fedora 1 (RH10). Fedora 2 is about to come out.

There is one more distro called PCQ Linux 2004. It is based on Fedora and is the only distro with Kernel 2.6.2 and KDE 3.2 at present. Its distributed by a reputed tech magazine from India and it has its own support forums and bulletin boards.

Secondly, since it is based on Fedora, I guess 90% of it will be same and so support elsewhere is also possible. So far, Red Hat has maximum number of books and sites dedicated to it.

[tnik]

The only bad thing that I can see with using fedora is that it is the test bed for RedHat's comercial distro.. I lost alot of respect for RedHat when they did that..

but I guess everyone eventually gets the Bill Gates virus.......

[utanja]

Originally posted by tnik:
The only bad thing that I can see with using fedora is that it is the test bed for RedHat's comercial distro.. I lost alot of respect for RedHat when they did that..

but I guess everyone eventually gets the Bill Gates virus.......

been using RedHet for years since RH6 and now thinking about switching... having one Bill gates in the world is more than enough...