Linux

i will be getting another hard drive soon and i want to dual boot Windows ME with linux, i have tried quite a few version of linux and i was wondering what people thought was the best and why, personally i want to use mandrake

I use Redhat. It was just the first one I used, never used another distro before. From what I've read, Mandrake is a enhanced version of Redhat, and is supposed to be easiest distro to get used to from Windows.

Use Mandrake. The latest version of RedHat produces incompatible binaries from the development tools -- avoid!

Mandrake was originally RedHat compiled for Pentiums, but it's gone it's own path.

I like SuSE... I would still be using SuSE, but I installed it with the wrong kernel, and couldn't access the internet from it :(

Right now I'm using RedHat. If I get a spare machine I want to try SuSE, Slackware, maybe Open and Not Linux (BSD).

I use RedHat because it is the home team.

IBM is pushing one. Open is it? Hopefully that will be a good thing.

I want to try the BS Distro... Was about to buy FreeBSD, but the store I go to stopped carrying it :mad:

I found out there is a NetBSD port for the PowerPC. My finacee has one. I am hoping I can talk her into letting me play around with it.

Until I actually get to play around with BSD at all, and play around with some other Linux Distrubutions, I'm not casting a vote as to which is better, BSD or Linux.

I've used Linux, which is pretty cool, but BSD seems better, I don't know why, I guess it's 'cause that little Devil looks so much cooler than the penguin ;)

I have to agree with Dennis; Tux looks dumpy.

I just Installed Debian 2.2 over Redhat 6.1.
Hehehe...guess what ?? I Re-Installed Redhat within 1 Hour !

Debian must be an ALL GEEK AFFAIR !
Surely that is not for me.

That's kind of what it's designed for -- people who know EXACTLY what they're doing and don't want it pushing them around ;)

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That's kind of what it's designed for -- people who know EXACTLY what they're doing and don't want it pushing them around ;)

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Does it have a GUI, or is it Text based?

It's Linux, Dennis...you can run any Linux apps on it. That includes X.

Then what makes it so different?

Debian's package system is far superior to RPM, and it basically has very little "user-assistance" overhead. You can see exactly what's going on.

Currently Debian {Brainchild of Ian Murdock {Wife name : Debra}} uses the Linux Kernel...

They are Developing their own kernel that Will soon replace the Linux kernel.

So...In future Debian Will be an OS on it's Own !!!

SuSE 7.1 is spectacularly easy to install and configure - but I guess it depends what you want

I managed to install Mandrake 7 onto a partition in 20 minutes, having never seen or touched Linux before. It was very easy to install, has loadsa apps, and in short I like it! I also tried Corel recently, and I have to say it sucked!!