It's only my own experience but I liked XUbuntu a lot on my netbook until I fiddled around one time too many and scragged it, so am currently installing Mint 13 xfce edition (I like xfce!) which seems to work out of the box . Much depends on your system and your personal preferences. The Wombat
Charles Doubek <hartsell...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >Thanks Scott, I will look into the two that you mentioned. > > > > >On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 05:55:26PM -0000, Charles wrote: >> >> I've been reading a Linux newbie guide and I'm trying to decide which >distro to use. Toward the bottom of this page >http://tinyurl.com/a57w9ln there is a chart makes reference to >dependency problems and in Chapter 8 the "Dependency Hell" of RPM based >distributions is mentioned. >> >> How worried should I be about the dependency issue? >> > >Not very. That really hasn't been true for years. Yum, the package >handling tool for RedHat and some offshoots, handles things very well >nowadays. In the old days, pre yum, one would run the command rpm -ivh >whatever to install a package, only to have it fail because it was >missing >something. Then, when you searched for the missing thing, it turned >out >that you needed yet another rpm to install the missing rpm. > >However, these days, almost all distributions, including those that use >RPMs, have very good package management programs that will pull in all >dependencies. On occasion, due to various factors, any of them might >fail, >but 99 percent of the time, whether one uses rpms or debs package >installation is not a problem. > >> >> I found this groups link to the Top Ten Distributions. That is a lot >of information to digest. I know there can be no definitive answer to >this question and I don't want to start a flame war but I would be >interested in hearing some advice on which distribution to choose. >> > >For a beginner, Ubuntu or Mint seem to be the best choices. In >addition, >both have pretty friendly and helpful forums. > >-- >Scott Robbins >PGP keyID EB3467D6 >( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) >gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > >Oswin: Doesn't she seem a bit too angry to you? >Amy: Well, somebody's never been to Scotland. > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >------------------------------------ > >To unsubscribe from this list, please email >linux_newbies-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com & you will be removed.Yahoo! >Groups Links > > > -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email linux_newbies-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: linux_newbies-dig...@yahoogroups.com linux_newbies-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: linux_newbies-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
