Hi, Of course evert distribution is different and will meet everyone's expectations diferently. I would suggest you start with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is probably the most newbie friendly distribution, having great hardware detection, extremely large repositories and a great community to support you. Also Ubuntu is based on debian which has the great apt package manager which makes installing or removing software a breeze especially with GUI tools such as synaptic.
M On 1/24/07, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes its available for SuSE too. If you have the DVD of SuSE 10.2 then you will have no need to re-install but just upgrade. All your previous settings and customizations will be retained... so don't panic. I have upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 without problems. Have a friend of mine who has been upgrading at each release since 9.1 (9.2-> 9.3-> 10.0-> 10.1-> 10.2) On 1/24/07, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing you could try, at least with some of the distributions, is to > download and burn a live CD. That way you can try booting off it on your > laptop, see if your hardware works better, and if so, you can then > install > the full version. > > You can now read AND write NTFS partitions, at least in Ubuntu. You just > need > to install the ntfs-3g package, and change the partition type in your > fstab. > It's probably available for Suse as well. > > Ramon Casha > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 20:29, Graham Petley wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > This may seem a stupid question, but what difference is there > between > > the different Linux distributions? I currently run Suse 10.1 and KDE > on my > > laptop, and have DVD's for Suse 10.2 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft. Is it worth > > updating or switching disti? > > > > I'm not that happy with Suse because the PCMCIA slot doesn't work > (it > > does in XP); wireless doesn't work (in XP it does) and I think my > kernel is > > tainted with something called Linuxant; in battery mode the screen is > > dimmed and I can't control this; when I upgraded to 10.1 my file > system was > > changed from Ext3 to reiserfs without asking me (although now I think > > reiserfs is better); the upgrade also deleted software I use like > kedit, > > which I had to reinstall from source and it isn't as stable as it was. > > > > > I don't think Suse or Ubuntu will make any difference in getting > these > > things to work. I also don't think they'll make any diference in > offering > > me the new features I really want like the ability to read and write > an > > NTFS disk partition; to use the Windos key-E combo to open a new > console > > window; the ability to play DVD's easily; a photo viewing program as > easy > > to use and print from as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. The only > thing I'm > > really certain I will see is a new KDE interface which could mean all > my > > menu customisations will be trashed. > > > > Then I've got Crossover Office. Will that still work? > > > > Are there any opinions on what real and useful differences I would > see > > with either of these new distis? > > > > Saluti, Graham Petley > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
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