Dave, We have used CentOS for years and I am very happy with it. We also use NVIDIA hardware. CentOS does not work out of the box with NVIDIA, but NVIDIA has an installation package for their drivers on their web site that does work out of the box in combination with CentOS. That is, you run it once and the proper drivers get incorporated in the kernel and it works great. You only have to apply this special step when you upgrade your kernel. As far as stereo goes, we use the old-fashioned emitter-based hardware stereo and this works as long as you do as you are supposed to do (properly configure the X-window system). The thing I have most enjoyed is that CentOS is very, very reliable and stable.
Hope this helps. Mark van der Woerd -----Original Message----- From: David Roberts <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 8:16 am Subject: [ccp4bb] linux flavors Hello all, Quick question on linux varieties. For years (and years) I have used fedora (after Ultrix of course). In fact, most of my computers are running FC7 (that long ago), it's very stable and works fine. However, since it is no longer supported, I'm toying with upgrading. I upgraded one machine to FC13. However, this nouveau driver thing is killing me, and getting my nvidia drivers installed is hopeless (I have followed every thread on this and I simply give up - it's not worth it). With a Zalman monitor it doesn't matter - nouveau works fine and my stereo is good - so I don't really care (or do I). The question is this - what flavors of linux out there are simplest to install - work instantly with various hardwares, and run stereo seamlessly (either Zalman stereo or hardware stereo with an emitter). For zalman anything works - which is why I'm going that way - but I still need hardware stereo on a few machines. So, for hardware, I need my nvidia drivers to install easily. I'm downloading ubuntu - is that a good choice? Can I run different flavors of linux with nfs and share drives in a local network (so one has fc7, one has fc13, and another has ubuntu)? Thanks Dave
