Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Linux, linux, linux.... Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post GamerX Posted at 12:41 am on Dec. 24, 2004 I need some help here choosing which distribution of linux to go with. What's the main difference between them? I'm basically looking for a workstation, suited for development and comes with multi-language support (Russian and French to be exact, o and English :P ). Also I haven't really used Linux a lot in the past so something with abundant manuals, documentations, etc would be very nice!

Replies xxtoxicxfemmexx Posted at 7:05 pm on Feb. 12, 2006 oijf Macropiper Posted at 2:32 pm on Jan. 2, 2006 Ubuntu has some problems, if you go to the website you will find fixes for these problems (or if you pay close attention while installing it). FishyCrossing Posted at 10:59 am on Jan. 1, 2006 Quote: from thewonderer at 2:33 am on Dec. 30, 2005 Ubuntu. I spent all summer trying out different distributions, Redhat, fedora, aurox (my close second), mandrake, knoppix, turbo, simplymepis, suse, and puppy. Nothing was anywhere near as great as Ubuntu. If you want sound and can't get it on linux, SuSe will get it for you, but Ubuntu gives you access to all the easy depian installers, is really really fast, and will get you just about anything. Ubuntu raped my children. And doesnt work the with wireless LAN very well...And the only option it gave me for my high end onitor was 800X600. The monitor goes up to fucking 1280X1024. 2nd highest resolution available on desktop monitors, and it gives me 800X600. Do you know how big everything was! And nothing is automated. Aurox is nice though...Lindows is good for starting out....Just remember, Ubuntu is a rapist thewonderer Posted at 11:33 pm on Dec. 29, 2005 Ubuntu. I spent all summer trying out different distributions, Redhat, fedora, aurox (my close second), mandrake, knoppix, turbo, simplymepis, suse, and puppy. Nothing was anywhere near as great as Ubuntu. If you want sound and can't get it on linux, SuSe will get it for you, but Ubuntu gives you access to all the easy depian installers, is really really fast, and will get you just about anything. sriehl Posted at 3:46 pm on Aug. 3, 2005 It depends on what you want to do with it, I have tried about 8 or so different linux live cd's, and each has something compleatly different than the rest. Charolastra Posted at 12:23 am on Aug. 3, 2005 What about Linux Live? What version would you all suggest? I've tried getting the live version of Ubuntu but I'm stupid. Help? sriehl Posted at 9:27 pm on Aug. 2, 2005 I just recently tried Xfce4 and I like it a lot.  It is light, yet has many features. tigerdude16 Posted at 3:48 pm on July 29, 2005 Wut's Linux? Macropiper Posted at 1:52 am on Feb. 23, 2005 I use Fedora core 3 because I like gnome and I am just used to red hat like distributions of linux. I did install synaptic to handle installing new packages and updating though, makes things much easier. mephisto mortis Posted at 5:44 pm on Feb. 12, 2005 I've used a good number of WM's but i must say I prefer my fvwm.  ITs highly configurable but a very long process (not necessarily hard, but long).  I do however, also use flux on my other system with less ram (64 meg), its nice lightweight and fast.  But its hard to recommend a WM, its more of something you gotta try out to see if you like it. squirellplayingtag Posted at 2:27 pm on Feb. 12, 2005 Fluxbox is excellent. I like it better then blackbox. Gnome is good if your use to the windows style GUI. Flux box has no icrons and you get to your programs by clicking on the desktop which brings up the menu similar to the start button in Windows. sriehl Posted at 7:15 pm on Feb. 11, 2005 For a window manager, I prefer fluxbox.  It is very friendly on system resources.  You can configure almost all of it as far as colors, workplanes, menus. Misero Posted at 8:58 am on Feb. 11, 2005 I say go with Debian GNU/Linux. I realise it is regularly used as an example of a "difficult" distro, but here's why I always recommend it: 1) I feel it isn't nearly as difficult as some people make out. Usually what people mean by difficult is that it's less like Windows (e.g. less GUI apps for configuration etc.). Bear in mind I haven't got any substantial amount of experience with distros like SUSE so my advice here may not be entirely accurate. 2) Installing and removing software in Debian is such a breeze, you're much less likely to accidentally make a mess of things than if you're downloading source tarballs and compiling everything you install. Sure, there are advantages to doing things that way (ask a Gentoo user) but if you're a beginner then that's just unnecessary hassle. Learning how to use apt-get is very straightforward. And I am aware not all other distros make installing things difficult, but Debian's system is particularly excellent in my opinion. 3) It's free. And not just free as in beer. 4) It's very popular, which means plenty of support is at hand if/when things get hairy. 5) Starting with a distro like Debian will let you learn how to use a Linux system. If you choose an "easier" distro like Mandrake or SUSE then you'll probably find it harder to use other distros in the future if you need to (or decide to, but personally I'm a very satisfied Debian user and I have no real desire to migrate to another distribution) 6) It's not called the Universal Operating System for nothing :). In other words, you'll have no trouble getting language support for Russian and French. If you're uncertain, head over to http://knoppix.net and consider downloading a copy of it to try it out. It's a Live CD distro (that is, you burn it to a CD and boot off the CD instead of your hard drive), based on Debian. You might even feel more comfortable doing a hdd install of Knoppix before moving on to Debian proper. If you're interested in installing Debian then I suggest you take a look at this page: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/ Try following the link near the bottom of the page to "Testing" (aka Sarge) CD images. Chances are you'll be wanting an i386 build, so navigate into that directory. Also, it's likely you'll only need the first CD image. that is, sarge-i386-1.iso. As far as I'm aware these CDs have the newer, slightly more user-friendly installation on them (the older one tends to receive a fair amount of criticism). (Edited by Misero at 5:15 pm on Feb. 11, 2005) Gillibiabtiag Posted at 4:43 pm on Feb. 1, 2005 Heh. I wouldn't advise slack for newbs; I started on SuSE, and it worked really well for me. Now that SuSE is free, I'd start on that. Oh, and Linux is probably one of the most-documented things in existence. If you can use google, there are no questions that cannot be answered. Telnetinator Posted at 8:45 pm on Jan. 31, 2005 Quote: from StTenSk8er at 10:38 am on Dec. 24, 2004 i use Mandrake i have also used fedora i like both of them I second that.  I started out with Mandrake.  Now I use Fedora Core, because I prefer Gnome and that's what's on the computers in my universities CS Lab.  Both have intuitive graphical installers, and good hardware suppost. If you're looking to dual boot with Windows, Mandrake comes with a swell disk partitioner that will resize your Windows partition and all that jazz -- all point and click.  Easy, peezy.  Wow, I'm starting to sound dumb. Anyway, Suse is a good option to start with, too.  Like Mandrake, easy to use installer with KDE as the default desktop enviroment.  Still, I suggest Manrake to start with for anyone who has to ask "which distro" to choose. All distros, as far as I know, come with everything you'll need for developement (unless you're looking to develop Visual Basic programs...). Otherwise, if you think you're "beyond," these, I say skip the Slack and go for a BSD. Most recent 15 of 20 previous replies displayed.