On Wednesday 20 February 2008 02:51, Fred A. Miller wrote: > John Meyer wrote: > > A.Muller wrote: > >> Hello everybody ! > >> I've been monitoring this mailing list for a couple of months and > >> received answers to my questions about OO. Thanks to the benefactors. > >> My experience with OO goes back to 2005 and I'm very satisfied with > >> it. Now I would like to cross the Rubicon and eliminate, gradually, XP > >> from my machine. I've read many posts relating this or that > >> bug/difficulty of OO with some specific distributions of Linux. In > >> your experience, which one would be the best to start with among the > >> different distros : Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian or whatever ? Thank > >> you for your advice. A.Muller > > > > Well, in my experience its OpenSuse. But that's the great thing about > > experience: it's subjective and based on one's own personal preference. > > A lot of people here will promote Ubuntu. But the best thing is that > > since they're free you can experiment. Download one or two and see > > which one fits you. > > I'll add my 2 cents as well. Over the past 11+ years, I've installed > SUSE and now openSUSE on more systems than I can count. It IS the most > complete distro. available with superior utilities provided by the boys > and girls of openSUSE. The ONLY other distro. I've installed, where I > need a very minimal installation, like on some laptops with goofy wifi > (Broadcom....what junk!), I'll use PCLinuxOS 2007.
Another vote for PCLinuxOS 2007. Excellent for newbies migrating from Windows. But as has been said, try several Live CDs - and pick the one that can handle your personal set-up the best: i.e., can talk out of the box with all your hardware and is therefore able to install without any tweaking. HTH Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
