Hi,
There is no "perfect" distro. There are pros and cons. Rest of my replies
inline.... And reg windows, its a real pain to install windows.... Boot 3-4
times only to get a basic system. then install codes, office, other programs
etc etc... wonders how much time an install will take...
On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 10:38 pm, nikhil purwant wrote:
> mandrake is nice but then some
> nice packages are missing ( lex , yacc to name a few )
look for flex and bison... as far as I see, mandrake is good balanced home
distro. Am personally using it for more than a year now.
> so people i want a linux distributon which meets
> following demands
Going through the list, I feel that Simply MEPIS best suites you.
> 1 good array of packages ( not the ones like apg or
> random no generator normal people wont use them but
> packages like say p2p applications and multimedia
> applications)
MEPIS is Debian based, and the entire deb repo of packages is available to
you.
> 2 responsive ( not like fc3 which seems slow on older
> ( but not too old 1.7GHz 256Mb machines alike )
> machines )
It is responsive enough. A friend of mine uses it on P3 500 Mhz with 256mb
ram.
> 3 good packages programming related packages ( that
> is like given when we talk of linux but still )
I guess Deb has lots of them. By default, MEPIS contains only basic
development tools.
> 4 nice looks ( with the theme manager)
MEPIS is polished. Better than Knoppix in some respects.
> 5 nice audio video support
Excellent av support. I have played all kinds of files using mplayer in MEPIS.
And lots of codecs come by default.
> i don't want to keep on "trying out" all of them (
> well i am yet to try ubuntu slakware etc )
I suggest that you keep some free space (1-2 gb will do) for trying out
distros. Or google and read ppl's reviews. maybe distrowatch.com can help. Yo
MEPIS is a single CD distro. Its a live + installable cd combo.
-Devendra Laulkar.
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