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[XTremo]

Hi everybody!

I live in Southern Spain.....in the province of Granada. But I'm not Spanish....I'm Welsh. Been here since 2005, and I have a web development and hardware support business.....primarily for British companies in Spain.

I've played around with Linux for a year or two....nothing serious though as I just don't have the time. Done the usual Distro-hopping routine and now I'm pretty much settled with Mepis and Mandriva.....for what I want, they pretty much fit the bill.
Easy to configure right out of the box, user friendly, and good support forums.

Look forward to chatting with you guys!

[belac]

Hi everybody!

I live in Southern Spain.....in the province of Granada. But I'm not Spanish....I'm Welsh. Been here since 2005, and I have a web development and hardware support business.....primarily for British companies in Spain.

I've played around with Linux for a year or two....nothing serious though as I just don't have the time. Done the usual Distro-hopping routine and now I'm pretty much settled with Mepis and Mandriva.....for what I want, they pretty much fit the bill.
Easy to configure right out of the box, user friendly, and good support forums.

Look forward to chatting with you guys!

What kind of distro's have you tried before? I'm use OpenSuse 11.1 at the moment. What is your opinion?

[BLFS]

I am in Springfield, Missouri, US. I am new to Linux. I have Ubuntu running in Vbox on Windows XP, as my IT Instructor advised me to try Ubuntu for its ease of use, and a friend of mine--who has been a Linux user in his consulting and networking business for years--suggested that I try loading it in Vbox. I also am attempting to load Gentoo from the livecd on a machine, but have run into a few snags. I am having fun learning Linux, although it can be frustrating at times when I miss a step. Although I have to use Windows for college, I am excited about learning Linux for my personal use. I also understand that more and more users are switching to Linux.

[XTremo]

What kind of distro's have you tried before? I'm use OpenSuse 11.1 at the moment. What is your opinion?

Hi belac!

What have I tried? From memory.....Mepis, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppy, Damn Small Linux, Mint, Zenwalk, PCLinuxOS, DreamLinux, and Vector.

Some I thought were reasonably good, some OK, and some just didn't want to work at all.

OpenSuse? I really liked it.....I just found it a bit resource intensive, and I would definitely check it out again. In fact I'd put Suse as my no3, behind Mandriva at no2 and Mepis at no1.

But bear in mind my views are based on limited Linux knowledge....and are just my opinion based on how I found them.

[belac]

Hi belac!

What have I tried? From memory.....Mepis, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppy, Damn Small Linux, Mint, Zenwalk, PCLinuxOS, DreamLinux, and Vector.

Some I thought were reasonably good, some OK, and some just didn't want to work at all.

OpenSuse? I really liked it.....I just found it a bit resource intensive, and I would definitely check it out again. In fact I'd put Suse as my no3, behind Mandriva at no2 and Mepis at no1.

But bear in mind my views are based on limited Linux knowledge....and are just my opinion based on how I found them.

My opinion is same like your. Actually I just like to use this Op Sys. and enough later to digging deeper into the linux soul to reforming to my mind.

[XTremo]

My opinion is same like your. Actually I just like to use this Op Sys. and enough later to digging deeper into the linux soul to reforming to my mind.

If you prefer KDE, and I do, I'd definitely check out Mandriva and Mepis if you haven't already done so.

They both just work.....even more so than Suse I found. For lower resource systems Mepis would be your best bet.

[mudgecko]

Life's funny... you blokes seem to like Mepis and have no problems with it. Each time, I think three times, (and three different versions) I've tried it, Mepis won't even boot up, it never gets past the "numbers and letters thingy" (You can tell I'm technically trained...not). I've never even seen the splash screen.!! A couple of other distros are the same, but can't remember which. Yet most of the others fire up no problems at all?

[belac]

If you prefer KDE, and I do, I'd definitely check out Mandriva and Mepis if you haven't already done so.

They both just work.....even more so than Suse I found. For lower resource systems Mepis would be your best bet.

Now I'll try out Mandriva w. Gnome desktop. I'm a bit unhappy with Suse. Sometimes a bit difficult to heal up something. I have to spend soon many times to resolving simple problems. It was my 1st my scanner. (resolved) Now is my printer and after many downloaded things I can't to play/view a simple xy.wmv file. I don't like this time wasting. Why so easy on Apple OSX? (A have an old PowerBook-G4 and still running with original system more than 4 years ago) OSX also a Unix based system - like linux- and I'm not understand why so easy to handling. There I also have "unsupported" HW -my WiFi card- but after look around on the net I found the solution and still working and not send me back every time at install error messages as "xy file need xy version" of program. I believed if I install the latest version of Op. system it's content all of newest version of sub programs.

[belac]

I'll be back just restart my system and I'll boot from my Mandriva live CD.

[XTremo]

Life's funny... you blokes seem to like Mepis and have no problems with it. Each time, I think three times, (and three different versions) I've tried it, Mepis won't even boot up, it never gets past the "numbers and letters thingy" (You can tell I'm technically trained...not). I've never even seen the splash screen.!! A couple of other distros are the same, but can't remember which. Yet most of the others fire up no problems at all?

I couldn't advise mudgecko.....all I know is I just put in the Live CD and within 20-25 minutes I've got a working distro with everything installed.
I've used 7 and now 8 on a number of different systems from 512mb 2.7 Celerons up to 4GB dualcore laptops......and the result is always the same. It just works.....and keeps on working.
If you want cutting edge stuff it's not for you.....but a stable, reliable, tested installation is what I primarily look for. For the latest user experience I just use Mandriva.
I would definitely check it out again, and you'll find the Mepis community forum is probably one of the most pleasant and helpful on the Net.