Overview of the ten major Linux distributions

Linux Forums ^ | 2006-04-01 | Clement Lefebvre

[N3WBI3]

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[Mr. Jeeves]

Unless you just enjoy playng with Linux, OS/X is well worth the extra hardware cost. ;)

[ShadowAce]

IBGE!

[frogjerk]

IBGE!

Ha Ha!

[xcamel]

[Echo Talon]

if you are a beginner i would suggest Mepis, i haven't tried Xandros so I cant comment on that one, but Mepis seems pretty nice.

[zeugma]

So, if you're an 'xcamel', what are you now? ;-)

[zeugma]

Newbies might want to check out this month's Tux Magazine. It's downloadable for free.

 Here's the blurb about the current issue from their page:

In Issue 12, available April 1, 2006, TUX features its first Linux distribution review and comparison. We feature seven reviews of some of the most popular Linux distributions. As explained in our review introduction, we wanted to capture these reviews from the freshest "out-of-the-box" perspective possible. For me, this was important because once you've used Linux as a desktop for a few years, you tend to forget what it feels like to be new to Linux--especially if the new user happens to be an ordinary user and not an engineer.

[N3WBI3]

Subscription fees or not I dont know how the author left out RHEL, and *shudder* Linspire..

[cloud8]

[Tribune7]

bump

[Betis70]

I've run various distros (Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix-install) but the one I use now is Gentoo. The docs are excellent and once the initial system is set-up, the snappy performance is great. I still have debian installed on a different partition, but hardly ever boot into it anymore.

But I fiddled a lot with Linux before I tried Gentoo, so YMMV. My brother (who is a Linux newbie) runs Ubuntu on one of his old ,'dead' machines. Seems to work out well for him, esp. with his C programming class.

[madtier1]

mentioning ms at the beginning of an article about linux seems sacrilegious

[softwarecreator]

Thanks n3wbi3, this is something I've been looking for.  Very informative!

[dennisw]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Xandros is an excellent beginner distro, there is a free version.,..

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I'm impressed by Vector Linux, fast browsing performance with Firebird.

[Incorrigible]

 

[Betis70]

Interesting, I'll have to take a look at it. I do a lot of software tinkering on my home machine, so I still need a full distro (well, with Apt or Emerge anyway), but since the debian partition isn't really serving any real use, maybe I'll try Vector Linux there.