To be honest, i love the SuSE distro although I feel that YaST has
become this behemoth, and I no longer have any ideas what it is doing.
However have moved to a company that standardised all linux
workstations to debian or variants of. I am running Kubuntu at the
moment.
It picked up all my hardware. I recently added a second LCD screen
and had little issues with the xorg config. I added a UPS last week,
and it auto configured the UPS. So far I have no complaints and am
pretty impressed.
Although I discovered last week that FreeBSD is also an option and am
considering migrating. If you are looking at Ubuntu on PPC (legacy
apple) then official support has been dropped. Debian also allows you
to move away from RPM hell.
Apple's OSX is pretty slick - I run it on my intel MacbookPro - you
can run a host of open source apps / networking tools: like open/neo
office, wine, kismet, nmap. One of the apps you need to grab however
is iterminal which will give you tabbed terminals.
If you like the Portege system however there are ports to several distros.
Dan
On 29/08/2007, Sean Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I'm at the stage with my system that I'm itching to reinstall just because I
> can. Since I need my machine to earn money, and I often work in places with
> limited internet bandwidth, I'm interested in a distro that 'just works' - in
> terms of decent hardware support (Apple MacBook a bonus) wireless networking,
> multiple monitor support...... If my drive bugs out, I need to be up and
> running within a few hours.
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> (I do like the idea of Gentoo, but all the download+compile isn't attractive
> when you're in a hotel on a modem.....)
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> So, I'm not looking to start a 'my distro is better than your distro' flame
> war, but I am looking for opinions on what distro you use, why, and what
> doesn't work for you.
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> all opinions welcome. TIA
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> Sean
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