Being on the topic of distros has anyone tried fedora 17? Been hearing good things about it. Looking for change since I haven been using ubuntu for the past yr or so without hopping...thanks On Jun 7, 2012 11:22 AM, "Adam" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adam wrote: > >> What distros do you use, and why did you choose them? What are their >> biggest advantages and disadvantages? Are there any distros you've tried >> but chosen not to use? What made them a "bad fit" for you? I'd be very >> grateful if any of you would share your experiences with various distros. >> > > Thanks VERY much, Dave, Bob, Chris, Aram, Eric, Matthias, and Allen, for > your very helpful recommendation and an interesting discussion. I was also > surprised to see that other users here are considering changing distros. > Maybe a future meeting could be another "distro shootout". > > I've repartitioned my internal HD so I now have four additional 20 GB > partitions for trying other distros in addition to my "production" system. > I decided to start with distros similar to Mandriva. Right now I have the > latest releases of Mandriva, Mageiea, PCLinuxOS, and openSUSE installed. > I'm trying them "in parallel", so now all have all updates, and an > ordinary user can start the GUI. This last required "chmod 4755 > usr/bin/Xorg" on some of those distros. (An install of the "KDE Full > Monty" version of PCLinuxOS took up 14 GB, so I replaced that with their > "Phoenix" (XFCE4) edition, which takes up a more reasonable 2.4 GB.) My > next step will be to see whether I can get my wireless card to work, as > once I get my next system, this box will get moved into another room. > > So far, I don't have any conclusions about any of the four distros I've > installed. Based on recommendations, I also have the latest Debian, Arch, > Slackware, and CrunchBang (couldn't resist the name) burned to disc and > next in line to be tried out. I'll post any observations, conclusions, or > decisions to this thread. > > Adam > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/mhvlug<http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug> > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Jul 11 - Mad Science Fair - Open Hardware Expo > Aug 1 - Pimp My Network > Sep 5 - OpenStack >
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