Also, I came across an interesting link a few days ago for a Linux
Distribution Chooser. You take a short "quiz" of sorts to
determine which linux distros best match you and your situation.
The LDC can be found here: <a href="http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php">http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php</a><br>
<br>Might give that a shot. :)<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Champion</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@visionary.com">dave@visionary.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Gentoo is a very "hands on" distro, I would only recommend it for<br>hardcore hacker types. Slackware is also like this.<br><br>Any of the RedHat (Fedora, Whitebox, CentOS...) / SUSE / Mandriva<br>distro's are very easy to install & use.
<br><br>Debian & Ubuntu are slightly less user friendly - mostly just in the<br>installer - but are also easy to use.<br><br>Here's some resources for you to check out...<br><br><a href="http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=Distributions+by+Target">
http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=Distributions+by+Target</a><br><br><a href="http://distrowatch.com/">http://distrowatch.com/</a><br><br>-dc<br><br>Stuart Thiessen wrote:<br>> What do you consider the differences between Gentoo and SUSE? I have
<br>> only tried SUSE, RedHat (back in the 6.x days) and FreeBSD before.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Stuart<br>><br>> On Sep 15, 2005, at 10:43, Aaron Jensen wrote:<br>><br>>> As we speak I am loading Gentoo linux onto my laptop. I have used
<br>>> this as a server, desktop, and laptop OS many times before and<br>>> wouldn't use any other distro for a desktop/laptop at least.<br>>><br>>> On 9/15/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <<a href="mailto:dave@58ghz.net">
dave@58ghz.net</a>> wrote: I'm in the<br>>> process of putting Centos 3.5 on a laptop as we speak (as I<br>>><br>>>> type)...<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 23:35, James Shoemaker wrote:
<br>>>> > frankie wrote:<br>>>> > > Hello all,<br>>>> > ><br>>>> > > Just got hold of a IBM Thinkpad 390X and am deciding what to<br>>>> put on<br>>>> > > it. I have to put Win2K on it for work and school, but II have
<br>>>> the back<br>>>> > > half of a 20 Gb drive to install Linux on. Looks like parts are<br>>>> pretty<br>>>> > > common, nothing exotic. Any suggestions on which distro is going
<br>>>> to work<br>>>> > > best? Thanks!<br>>>> ><br>>>> > Use whatever distro you like, most work fine with<br>>>> laptops. My HP has<br>>>> > Debian on it and it works fine.
<br>>>> ><br>>>> > James<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">
http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</a><br></blockquote></div><br>