It all depends on your interest as to what distro to use. For older hardware look at antiX from MEPIS, or Lubuntu from Canonical. For a hands on distro you can't beat Arch. Fedora is a good alternative to Ubuntu. If you like KDE then look into PCLinuxOS or SimplyMEPIS. I would avoid SuSE and Mandriva for the moment because both are in flux. Novell was sold and developers are leaving. Mandriva had financial trouble and Mageia was split off by developers who were unhappy. If you don't mind uncertainty they are worth a look. There are so many good distributions it is hard to know where to go until you do a self assessment of your needs and how much effort you are willing to put into it.
Things to consider: size of the community (Ubuntu and derivatives win) support (Ubuntu and derivatives win) package management (rpm or DEB, personal preference) number of available packages (Debian and its offspring win) architecture (Debian wins) hardware, chiefly RAM (many distros specialise in this, Slitaz, Crunchbang, etc.) desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and many more) interest (build from scratch or ready made) You see why it is hard to recommend. We don't know you or your needs. Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 5 January 2011 05:17, hard wyrd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tyler, and welcome to the list :). > First, can you tell us the specs of your machine? I'm sure you know there's > a plethora of options out there. Knowing your specs can help out the people > here make a recommendation. Although I'm using Ubuntu on my work and home PC > as of the moment, I use a variety of distros (CentOS, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, > etc..) There are also the 'lightweight' and 'middleweight' distros if that's > your fancy. > Good luck! > - HW > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Tyler Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I like Linux the open source community and like everything about it. Up >> until the version of Linux I was using was too slow on my machine I was dual >> booting. I would really like to start working with and on Linux again so >> could anyone help me find a Linux better for my computer I would really >> prefer not to use Ubuntu. >> Thank You >> to all who help in advance >> Tyler Ryan Carroll >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > "Penguin, penguin, and more penguin !" > > www.madforubuntu.com > baudizm.blogsome.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
