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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:44 am Post subject: Linux Distro Reccomendations |
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Ok, now I'm gonna install Linux. Problem is there are about 400 different distros, and I need a reccomendation.
Ones that run the best as a desktop and/or server, please.
I did some googling - nothing really that reliable.
Searched here about - mostly cmx talking about Mepis.
Reccomend away. If you want, you can post links to the Distro you reccomend. To make it easier, I'll keep track of them up here.
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Linux Distros - Reccomendations
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CmX, The Inquisitor (via MSN) - Mepis
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rogantry - Gentoo
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rogantry - Slackware
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roganrty - Mandriva (Mandrake)
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The Inquisitor - SUSE (No link right now)
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Also, feel free to post screenshots... Thanks much for any and all reccomendations!!!
PS - Windows will also be on this PC in a seperate partition.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:31 am Post subject: Re: Linux Distro Reccomendations |
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The distro that i am using at the moment on my main machine is mandrake 10.1 (now known as mandriva)
i havent had that much problems, the installation is straight forward and you can set it up easily to dual-boot with windows.
the distro that i am using on my lill server is freebsd 5.2.1.
the installation process is not as friendly as mandrake, being mainly text based, but i managed after i found some more indepth documentation.
the computer im running it on is a 75MHz IBM/Cyrix. after a reinstall i didn't install a gui, or x but in the past the computer has managed well with the gui
i am looking into trying a new distro, and i think i will try either slakeware or gentoo
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Linux Distro Reccomendations |
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| roganty wrote: | The distro that i am using at the moment on my main machine is mandrake 10.1 (now known as mandriva)
i havent had that much problems, the installation is straight forward and you can set it up easily to dual-boot with windows.
the distro that i am using on my lill server is freebsd 5.2.1.
the installation process is not as friendly as mandrake, being mainly text based, but i managed after i found some more indepth documentation.
the computer im running it on is a 75MHz IBM/Cyrix. after a reinstall i didn't install a gui, or x but in the past the computer has managed well with the gui
i am looking into trying a new distro, and i think i will try either slakeware or gentoo |
Any others?
PS - I'll put those in my topic post in a bit. |
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Also, feel free to reccomend something that's already reccomended. If I have one, or more, that have been reccomended multiple times by multiple people, I'll probably choose it.
Thanks for any and all suggestions in advance!!!!! |
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p3
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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I deicided on one!!!
I'll put up a screenshot when I'm done to see if someone can identify it.
Also, feel free to keep reccomending. I may install another one sometime. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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There are lots of distros to try as a first but SUSE was supposed to be the best for someone with no Linux knowledge.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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I know this isnt linux, but I just installed it on an older pc I have and it is very stable.
http://www.freebsd.org
And if you want to try it instead of installing it to your HD try this:
http://www.freesbie.org
p3 do you have a second pc for your server? If you do I would highly recomend FreeBSD for a server... here is some good and bad things about it (along with windows and linux)
http://people.freebsd.org/%7Emurray/bsd_flier.html |
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p3
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Nope, my server is also my PC... |
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p3
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| Is there someone out there who can help me set up a Mepis distro so it connects via my wireless network? |
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www.mepis.org.
Mepis rules! |
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p3
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| cmxflash wrote: | www.mepis.org.
Mepis rules! |
I deicided on Mepis :D
Anyone have any clue on how to set up the wireless internet on it so it connect to my router through its wireless Netear USB Adapter? |
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Netgear WG111... that better?
Thanks for the docs, btw... |
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http://forum1.netgear.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=9854&highlight=wg111+linux
Check the reply - this is a fairly recent post. Doesn't look promising, especially if you're just getting started with Linux. The suggestion offered there should work, but you might have problems getting going.
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| Anonymoose wrote: | http://forum1.netgear.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=9854&highlight=wg111+linux
Check the reply - this is a fairly recent post. Doesn't look promising, especially if you're just getting started with Linux. The suggestion offered there should work, but you might have problems getting going. |
This looks like it may take a massive amount of time...
They did Mandriva does recognize it...
Perhaps I should use that for the time being...
Unfortunatley, the only Mepis user I know of here is CmXflash, and, as I'm sure you know, we aren't exactly on the best of terms... Oh well... I guess I'll use Mandriva for now until by some miracle I get it working.
[Random Thought]What about FreeBDS? Anyone know anything about that?[/Random Thought] |
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There's a difference between recognising it and supporting it. Recognising a piece of hardware is easy - the same as when you don't have drivers for something installed and it shows up with a ? in the Windows Hardware Mangler. Just because Mandriva recognised that one was plugged in doesn't mean that it was working - it's still the same Linux kernel, with the same total lack of support from Netgear. You'll still have to hack your way through NDISWrapper - which I think is also included in Mepis, if you check.
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