....side note. what are you going to do with that old powerbook? On 3/10/06, Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reply inline below, only the areas where I feel I have a solid answer. > > On 3/10/06, Tarus Balog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1) What should I look at in terms of a nice, clean, powerful desktop? > > I like KDE. Is there a distro out there that is stable enough to use > > in a mission critical application (i.e. my desktop) that is current > > enough to contain lots of cool, bright, shiny things? I think Debian > > is out since I don't want to run sid. CentOS? Ubuntu? I doubt anyone > > has duplicated the usefulness of Exposé, but one can hope. > > > I run CentOS 4.2 at home and at work for desktop use. I'm quite happy > with > it. It's not got the latest bleeding edge stuff in it but I don't have to > upgrade every six months either. Simply adding Dag Wieer's yum repository > to your yum configuration will get you a lot of nice stuff that is missing > from CentOS (and by extension RHEL) > > For the desktop I prefer KDE and have been using it since almost the > beginning of the project. But when I'm in the mood for trying something > new, I'll often log out and log back in with Xfce as my desktop instead. > Xfce loads almost instantly on my AMD64 3700+ but KDE still takes awhile. > Xfce is very snappy, very easy to use, and I really don't have a good > excuse > for not switching over completely by now. > > iTunes: xmms? > > > I use and like xmms but it doesn't compare to iTunes. > > > Mail: Thunderbird > > Yup > > Browser: Firefox > > > Yup > > > > iPhoto: Gallery? > > > Honestly this is one of the key apps that always gets me back on my crusty > old Powerbook. > > > > 3) Connectivity: How is the current support for wireless (I love the > > "Location" feature of OSX) and bluetooth? iSync? > > > Last I looked, SuSE was doing this a lot better than RHEL but I don't > really > use wireless anymore. You might want to play with SuSE. It's very well > polished and might very well be a better laptop distro. Given the state > of > my powerbook I'll probably be doing the same thing as you in a few months > and I will give SuSE another good long look at that time. > > But I won't kid you. Linux as a desktop is nowhere near as polished as OS > X. Yes, I use it every day. I'm using it now at $WORK (a very very > pro-Linux company that still issues WinXP laptops because of the > shortcomings). I think it works brilliantly as a server but as a desktop > it > still feels very raw, rough around the edges, and missing a lot of > applications (that have reached maturity like what you're used to on OS > X). > > I keep trying OO.o every few months and though it has gotten better, it > still feels very rough and hackerish. Firefox and Thunderbird are about > the > most polished/mature apps I've seen on Linux for the desktop. Gimp is > still > suffering from a crude interface that is disappointing alongside of > Photoshop. > > I guess I better put on my flame-retardant kilt now. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >
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