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Best FLavor of Linux?
i'm planning on setting up a linux box, but i admittedly don't have an abundance of experience with linux, so i just wanted to ask what you guys think is the best/most user friendly flavor of linux right now.
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07-19-2002, 11:53 AM
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i currently am using Mandrake 8.2
it was easy to setup. my only problem was with the dual boot of win2k and Linux...but after alittle tweeking i got it solved. works great for me  |
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07-19-2002, 01:52 PM
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Yeah, I like Mandrake too... you can get the 3 cd iso's for free online... and they give you a lot of options as to what you want to set the OS up to do...
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07-19-2002, 02:27 PM
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Agreed, Mandrake is definitely the most "user-friendly" distro.
I'm a Debian guy myself. 
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07-19-2002, 02:53 PM
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I used an older version of Mandrake (7.0) on a 486 box a few weeks ago, and it worked fine. I know the OS and the installer has improved, so I would recommend it.
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07-19-2002, 03:03 PM
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07-19-2002, 03:09 PM
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Mine ran fine on a K6-2 450.... no slow downs or anything... how much ram did you have?  |
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07-21-2002, 01:09 AM
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I was a Mandrake fan until 8.2 came out - didn't work well at all for me. Red Hat is my flavor of choice.
-OC ps - I have 13 Linux books, and I feel like I need more. Just thought I'd share.
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07-21-2002, 07:10 AM
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I've had good luck with Mandrake 8.2, though I had good luck with Suse for the 7.x versions as well. I haven't tried Suse 8.0 because Mandrake has worked so well for me...
The only distro that I've used that ever gave me problems was RedHat... though to be fair, that was a while ago, and was one of my first attempts at Linux, so the problem might have been me.  But if you want user-friendly, with a pretty good selection of online help, mandrake is probably the way to go...
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07-21-2002, 10:48 AM
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07-21-2002, 11:16 AM
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Mandrake 8.2 for me. Well.... it was a requirement for school project. No problem with my AMD Athlon XP1600 box.
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07-21-2002, 12:26 PM
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What kind of problems did you have with 8.2, OC?
Not that I'm capable of fixing them, but just because I'm curious... 'cause it's been flawless for me. Runs slick on my Soyo Dragon+, AthlonXP, Radeon 7000, with a couple of Seagate Barracuda IV drives set up as IDE raid 0. |
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07-21-2002, 12:32 PM
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i prefer caldera and redhat. Mandrake is good for beginers, so as a beginner, start with mandrake then explore other options. Mandrake has made great progress in making the install real user friendly.
when you get used to linux, try other variants to see and learn allot of what mandrake is hiding from you.
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07-21-2002, 01:56 PM
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Kinda like OSX is good for Unix beginners? Start with it, and then explore other options? |
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07-21-2002, 02:15 PM
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Actually, it's not that stripped down. The video resolution is pretty light (only a 1 MB video board is in the thing) and it's slow, but it works. Not a bad conversation piece. :-) I managed to get 128 MB of memory in the unit, so I'm sure that helped. |
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07-22-2002, 10:39 AM
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thanks everyone.. i'll try mandrake and go from there... and i don't think i want to know what steve jobs is hiding, or more importantly where he's hiding it
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07-22-2002, 11:45 AM
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the admiral formerly known as overclocked
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Mandrake 8.2 just wouldn't configure itself correctly during installation. I tried the install a few times on two different boxes and it just wouldn't "take". I found this very surprising, because I had had great success with Mandrake going back to v7.2. RH 7.2 and 7.3 installed on both boxes with no diffuculty.
I'm a little surprised about the K62-350 problem. I've run RH 7.2 and 7.3 on an old PPro180 (I just us it as a file server) and it works just fine, not slow at all. -OC Last edited by OC : 07-22-2002 at 12:20 PM. |
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