With my new spare computers I have been trying out Linux distributions and keep coming back to Ubuntu although I though Suse was pretty good too. Anyone have strong opinions on Linux distributions?
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Gudanov - Nov 17, 2005 6:58:11 am PST #5597 of 10003
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§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 6:59:48 am PST #5598 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How's Ubuntu for installing new apps? I admit, I stuck around Red Hat for as long as I did because of the RPMs.
Gudanov - Nov 17, 2005 7:04:33 am PST #5599 of 10003
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Ubuntu is based on Debian so it installs new apps the Debian way.
If the app you want is the in Ubuntu repository, it's just point and click. If not, then you're kinda on your own. It has a pretty decent repository though.
TomW - Nov 17, 2005 7:04:37 am PST #5600 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I've had decent luck with Gentoo, although it's been a while since my last clean install and I don't ask it to do too much other than occasional platform testing and holding a cvs repository.
If you're interested in tinkering under the hood, it may be a good distro for you. It's extremely customizable.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 9:17:26 am PST #5601 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, Ubuntu made the The 100 Best Products of 2005 from PC World.
Ginger - Nov 17, 2005 9:25:49 am PST #5602 of 10003
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Any CSS experts out there who want to help me figure out a problem with a dropdown menu? I've banged my head on the desk one too many times and I've decided to yell for help.
Gudanov - Nov 17, 2005 9:26:52 am PST #5603 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Hey cool. I might have to try Gentoo and/or Slackware just to see what they are like. I can't belive I forgot about Slackware, I used Slackware a lot back in the day when I had a couple of Linux servers on the web.
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2005 10:34:03 am PST #5604 of 10003
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Gudanov - Nov 17, 2005 11:19:32 am PST #5605 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Of course then there's the whole Xfce vs. KDE vs. GNOME issue. So far I'm liking GNOME the best, but Xfce isn't too bad either. I haven't warmed up to KDE.
Gris - Nov 17, 2005 12:06:39 pm PST #5606 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Gentoo was my favorite, but it's very very much for somebody who likes complete control.
Ubuntu is beautifully done, and much easier to use than Gentoo, without quite as much customizability. I like the debian packaging system a lot more than RPMs - if you could handle RPMs, you can probably handle debs.
I hate each of KDE, Gnome, and XFCE, and always ran primarily GTK+ programs on top of a simple window manager like fluxbox for my own self. But I'm a minimalist - I didn't even set the fluxbox menus and used shortcut keys to start all of my programs (or a terminal window). I'm sure Gnome has improved since I last used it, though, it's been years and years.
In other news: I remember a bunch of announcements about (bad?) changes in PalmOne not long ago. Does this mean I should not get a Treo 650 refurbished for $140 with 2-year contract? The idea of a PDA attached to my phone so I actually take it with me and use it is a very nice one, especially as my life gets ever-more complicated post-college, and they seem the best. If the Palm is a bad idea for business reasons, though, I may go for the not-as-optimal Blackberry 7290 instead...