[Cialug] Linux version

[Josh More]

I also used to a Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS person, but I'm use SUSE more
and more.  I agree with Nate that Fedora will bog down the laptop.

>From a home-user perspective, I like that OpenSUSE has a lot of laptop
functionality bundled with it.  Most hardware "just works".

>From a business perspective, I think that gaining skills in SUSE and Red Hat
make the most sense.  The two cover the vast majority of the business
market.

If you want to run Linux and have a fairly easy time, I recommend OpenSUSE.
If you want to run Linux and gain business skills, I recommend OpenSUSE or CentOS
If you want to run a system for fun and tune it a LOT, go ahead and use debian.


 
 

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-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP 
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>>> smith at ipmvs.com 04/04/06 3:12 PM >>> 
I used to be a Redhat, Fedora, CentOS kind of guy, but I'm switching over to
be more Ubuntu/Debian.  The Ubuntu and Kubuntu (for KDE) distributions are
very nice.  Fedora will load too much stuff on your laptop so you will have
to cut stuff down to make it perform better (if that is a concern).  Debian
runs lean and (IMHO) ubuntu is a good compromise.
 
Certainly Others in the group will point out the merits of Mandriva and
Suse.
 
Whatever you get used to is what you will come to prefer.  Mandriva or
Kubuntu will probably come closest to Knoppix.  Debian with KDE is also
similar but much more spartan.
 
- Nate

----- Original Message-----
From: Keith Carpenter [mailto:wd0fia at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:04 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] Linux version


I have been running Knoppix Linux from cd for some time now.  I have two
machines I want to reformat and run Linux on.
 
The first machine is a Toshiba Laptop, a Sattellite 1735.  It has a 60 gig
hard drive, 700mhz cpu, 256meg of ram.
 
The second machine is a home built AMD Athlon, 120 gig hard drive, 2200mhz
cpu, 512meg of ram.
 
I have several versions of Linux available, and would like what version
would be best.  I believe Fedora is the current release?  Knoppix has ran
fine from the cd, but I have been told by several ham friends to run Red Hat
instead.  Any comments/ suggestions would be appreciated!
 
Keith 

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