Blue_cow Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Ok, im sure that this has been asked a thousand times over, but im looking to put a new distro of linux on a partition on my drive. Ive got a little bit of experience with fc3 but besides that, im a linux newb. Any recommendations? ive heard good things about suse... and i know it isnt linux but ive heard alot of good thigns about freebsd aswell. What is your preferences and why? Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 FC 4 is really nice.. i have also played around with mandrake.. its very nice.. linspiere is your best choice for easy use.. but mandrake and fedora are some of the best out there for ease of use Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_cow Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Well i liked fc3 but i havent touched even a beta of 4 yet so maybe ill give that a shot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugbug3311 Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 I think that linuxprox had a link to a place that you could get linspire for free with a code that you enter. Its somewhere here on the forums. Found it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister_Webmaster Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 The only thing about linspire is you have to pay $50 a year to keep it updated and download programs, when with FC4 you can go to places like www.freshrps.net and download lots and lots of programs and install them with the RPM manager quite easily. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_cow Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Yeah i love rpm installers. If i want to download someting and see that its not an rpm i just forget about it altogether because its too hard and rarely works for me lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister_Webmaster Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 If you get FC4, you'd like freshrpms.net then.. I didn't not find anything on there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leldorion Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Recently tried out ubuntu and think it's pretty good so far. Not sure about its connecting with ntfs formated drives and what not, but I haven't done too much on it yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezza Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Recently tried out ubuntu and think it's pretty good so far. Not sure about its connecting with ntfs formated drives and what not, but I haven't done too much on it yet. 501969[/snapback] Yeah, it's fine with that, I'm running ubuntu here and I am having no problems... I've not tried writing to it (and infact I mounted it as read only, so I can't, even by accident, cos I'm scared of it... But it connects fine and I can copy stuff from my NTFS drive to my EXT3 partition no problem Yeah i love rpm installers. If i want to download someting and see that its not an rpm i just forget about it altogether because its too hard and rarely works for me lol 501917[/snapback] You're kidding, right? rpms are the biggest mess of evilness ever. Infact it's one fo the resaons I moved to a debian-based distro, mind you, I still preffer compiling from source to packages anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoNothing Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 as everyone else has said, FC4 is a great distro, tis got a few improvments over FC3 and all the apps are new no need for yum update for awhile. mandrake is also good to continue learning on, and i havent used linspire... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flashstar Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Linspire is just awesome. It is organized much better and it seems to hog less resources. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold_snipe Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 FC4 seems good, but I never liked it. I prefer SuSE, altho i had problems with the 9.1 personal version. It came without cc or gcc, and no make. But that can be fixed by rpm's from the suse ftp. Linspire ive never tried, but ive heard some good things about it. Well, chose whichever one you think you would like the most. ^_^ Moo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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