Which Lunix is better?

[jediphx]

Suse 10 pro
Ubuntu Breezy (latest build)
Simply Mepis (latest build)

Thx

 

[xtknight]

I like SUSE 10.

 

[drag]

They are all the same. They use the same software.

what is different is how they are setup, packages, and package managers and such. the differences are more a matter of taste then anything else.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Anybody remember that online link that chooses a linux distribution for you after answering a couple of questions?

I had openSuSE 10 before I reformatted and it was great! Only thing I didn't like was the respositories with limited amounts of packages on there. YaST was really cool.

Ubuntu is a great distro, but I find things too limited. Great community and lots of tutorials/guides for doing stuff. I'd recommend it, just make sure to read their excellent starter guide and search questions on their forum.

Mepis is great too, this one would probably require the least amount of effort in to setting up, especially since its a livecd (very very handy). Make sure you know that the default username/password when booting the livecd (find it somewhere, for root the passwords root).

 

[jediphx]

http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser.html

 

[jediphx]

one of the ones it suggested for me was Fedora Core 4 and mandriva. is FC4 easy for a linux newb?

 

[daniel49]

last time I tried this I got no matches. got a 90% on ark this time.
only 72% on ubuntu which I am using hmmm:Q

 

[gruven]

It recommended Gentoo for me.

Imagine that. It is pretty accurate.

 

[Slicedbread]

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

 

[pkme2]

I prefer FC4. Just got Ubuntu and will install on one of my Linux machines soon.

 

[daniel49]

downloaded ark and burned image with gnomebaker won't boot on amd64 but works fine on 32 bit.

Also dling Mepis have never looked at it.
So is my thinking right here.
I presently have xp on master and ubuntu on slave...using grub.
I should be able to use Gparted to make a new partion on the slave drive without disturbing ubuntu in order to install and look at other distros. right? And the new install would show up in grub and be bootable.

Little rusty on this haven't used a partition utility since partition magic and win 98

 

[willtriv]

gentoo owns all other distro's for package management
in order to use gentoo or any other source build nix's/bsd u have to have a better understanding of the OS.
Companies often look at how familiar you are with a desktop and if a user says they are comfy with gentoo or bsd they often get good brownie points.

debian can also be really good for this and has a decent package management system.

 

[maskingtape]

gentoo owns all other distro's for package management in order to use gentoo or any other source build nix's/bsd u have to have a better understanding of the OS. Companies often look at how familiar you are with a desktop and if a user says they are comfy with gentoo or bsd they often get good brownie points. debian can also be really good for this and has a decent package management syste

you can't really say a single package owns all, each have their own advantages and disadvantages. I use 5 different linux distros at work from DSL, debian, FC4, Unbuntu and Suse linux 10, and the most user friendly and noob friendly is probably suse but thats my opinion. Its very good for people moving from windows to linux and its their first contact with an alternative OS to windows, the environment that Novell has created is a very user friendly one and the Yast control panel is great for setting up your box. However OS i really like is DSL as it is a very light distro and uses hardly any system resources very good if you want to run it on a extremely old box like the ones i have at work, you can SSH and VNC and has a light desktop which is what i need my main box to do to get into the main servers so thats my personal fav plus i have it running off my pendrive!.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Slicedbread
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

That ones it! I think its pretty good.

Originally posted by: daniel49
downloaded ark and burned image with gnomebaker won't boot on amd64 but works fine on 32 bit.

Also dling Mepis have never looked at it.
So is my thinking right here.
I presently have xp on master and ubuntu on slave...using grub.
I should be able to use Gparted to make a new partion on the slave drive without disturbing ubuntu in order to install and look at other distros. right? And the new install would show up in grub and be bootable.

Little rusty on this haven't used a partition utility since partition magic and win 98

Yeah, you can even resize partitions. However, you'll need to reconfigure grub. Its just adding a line to a config file. Or with Mepis's installation utility, there's a way to just install grub again. I would personally just add the new line to grub's config file.

 

[thesurge]

i use ubuntu just because. it's a funny name and im a n00b...however i loooove it

 

[PorscheMaD911]

Yeah ... Ubuntu's great. I used SUSE 10 for a while, then tried Kubuntu, then went back to Ubuntu. It's clean, doesn't have SUSE's bloat, and just works (even multimedia playback after a few tweaks).

 

[willtriv]

for ppl who ask me about trying a new linux out i recommend ubuntu. I don't think it has graphical package mgmt. (im getting the hint that yast is better for new users).

However, once u get confortable with the layout and using the console it shouldn't matter what distro you are running. It's just a preference then hence why i support gentoo. However, i also had some guru's around so i went in head over heals and had them sort me out with my first install being slackware.

good story i spent like 48 hours compiling Xorg on this old 133 my friend donated for me to learn linux on. So right after i got it, my friend said no more nano and said to use vi. I opened a binary file by accident in the xorg stuff and didnt know how to quit VI, i ended up turn the file into garbled ascii. It took me two more days of compiling to get that file going again :S

 

[Nothinman]

gentoo owns all other distro's for package management

Until you remove a package that other things were linked against and nothing works any more. Having dependency resolution on package removal is a pretty important feature IMO.

I opened a binary file by accident in the xorg stuff and didnt know how to quit VI, i ended up turn the file into garbled ascii. It took me two more days of compiling to get that file going again :S

You don't know how to use vi and yet you say that in order to use Gentoo "u have to have a better understanding of the OS"?

 

[Seeruk]

Always found SUSE hideously bloated and I despise KDE (though gnome is there too its rarely configured and integrated properly)

MEPIS is excellent if you like setup wizards and seems good for less experienced PC user... still I fomatted it not long after

Ubuntu - Best of the three


Still wireless support sucks for them all

 

[Sunner]

Hey, I'm kinda impressed by that distro picker.
I'm typing this on my Debian box, and whaddaya know, Debian came out as a 100% match for me

 

[PorscheMaD911]

willtriv, Ubuntu Breezy has a fantastic graphical package manager, Synaptic.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: maskingtape

gentoo owns all other distro's for package management in order to use gentoo or any other source build nix's/bsd u have to have a better understanding of the OS. Companies often look at how familiar you are with a desktop and if a user says they are comfy with gentoo or bsd they often get good brownie points. debian can also be really good for this and has a decent package management syste

you can't really say a single package owns all, each have their own advantages and disadvantages. I use 5 different linux distros at work from DSL, debian, FC4, Unbuntu and Suse linux 10, and the most user friendly and noob friendly is probably suse but thats my opinion. Its very good for people moving from windows to linux and its their first contact with an alternative OS to windows, the environment that Novell has created is a very user friendly one and the Yast control panel is great for setting up your box. However OS i really like is DSL as it is a very light distro and uses hardly any system resources very good if you want to run it on a extremely old box like the ones i have at work, you can SSH and VNC and has a light desktop which is what i need my main box to do to get into the main servers so thats my personal fav plus i have it running off my pendrive!.

I can say that RHEL package management gets OWNED by all...right?

I get stuck with that at work sometimes, what a pain in the arse

 

[Nothinman]

I can say that RHEL package management gets OWNED by all...right?

I get stuck with that at work sometimes, what a pain in the arse

Not really, especially if you're using RPM and comparing it to apt or yum you're not comparing the right tools. If you were using plain dpkg on Debian you would have the same issues. Their stupid add/remove programs applet does leave a lot to be desired, but RH does include up2date which is sort of like yum, not as good IIRC but probably faster since yum is slower than anything else out there.

 

[Robor]

I've only been bouncing around this forum for a month or so and I've seen this question asked many times. I think I might've asked it myself! Anyway, I can't remember who it was but they suggested a sticky in this forum that gives the pros/cons of each distro. I think that was a great idea.

As far as my vote, I'd recommend Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 to get up and running and Automatix (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563) to easily get all of the extras installed.

 

[hAmOdY]

i like arabian