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Old 02-21-2008   #1 (permalink)
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What distro should I use?

SO I finially got around to building my self a gaming machine since i moved and can't decide on what linux distro to use. I have a windows partition to support alot of my hardware and games I can't get running under wine or Cedega, and I'm looking for something new AND good.
I've used Gentoo, debian, redhat, mandrake (now mandrivia), suse, ubuntu, puppy, dyne:bolic, Dabbled with Arch, Fedora

So what's some distros you guys have tried out that are good and not on my list. I was thinking of giving white box a try aswell.
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PC Linux OS which keeps getting named as a challenger for Ubuntu
And of course the veritable slackware
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Whitebox is more or less the same as Red Hat (its built from the sources of RHEL like CentOS, Scientific etc). If you want a challenge, try one of the BSDs and Solaris. Linux From Scratch is another one I would recommend if you want to learn how Linux distros are built.
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For something a little differant try Core, you get a basic system, and download and compile anything else you want.
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For something a little differant try Core, you get a basic system, and download and compile anything else you want.
Interesting, I'd never heard of that one until today. I will check it out at some point.
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Yes, really interesting. Core sounds like extended (and extendable) BusyBox And quite a challenge to build (and maintain) own desktop system without a package manager.

I would also recommend BSD since it differs greatly from Linuxes and has the essence of true UNIX ;>
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I'm Looking at trying Linux Mint on my new Vista Laptop as a secondary OS. I wonder if its any good?
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I'm Looking at trying Linux Mint on my new Vista Laptop as a secondary OS. I wonder if its any good?
You really have to try it yourself to see if you like it. Some users do and some don't.

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You really have to try it yourself to see if you like it. Some users do and some don't.

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Thanks. it looks really neat. I allready have it on a vitrual machine on my work computer, its very clean. The community support seems to be excellent, so it looks as if this is my new OS du jour
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