The Brand New UltraMegaSuper "Which Distro" Thread
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I try Mandrake 10.0 Pro,Mandriva 2006,2007,Ubuntu 6,Redhat 9,Suse 9.2 and from all of this in my opinion ONLY Suse
Is Usuable for Newcomer and also for all others
After a little tom foolery ubuntu is now installed and working properly. I must say I will never choose Gnome over Blackbox again but a desktops a desktop. Hopefully I'll soon have a full setup for working with html, C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby going. I study allot of things but my process of learning programming is mostly focused on C and Ruby. Generic productivity, buggy seamonkey installed, pre-installed vim 6.4 is great, apt-got tcsh (my primary shell) and Abiword to suppliment OpenOffice. Once I get things sorted to play my MP3 and WMV I should be set. Ruby in particular I like as I can split my work between mutliple OS/PCs rather then keeping it to my BSD laptop where I do most of my study.
PCLinuxOS's mklivecd script is also some thing that has interested me since I read about it last month. A friend of mine used OpenSUSE for a while so I thought I might try ether Arch, OpenSuse, or PCLinuxOS GNU/Linuices if Ubuntu didn't make progress. I'm the type to try new things but not the kind to switch OSes often without a need. Converting my command aliases proceeds at the pace of GNU Man pages.
Here is my advice. All of the versions people mention - they are versions that you need to install on hard drive. What I suggest is using a live CD. So far the best one i know is knoppix. Try it. It is easy to start (it's just a boot cd), by default it is mounting everything read only. Autodection of hardware is really great...
Go with live CD. There are many of them, but I strongly recomment Knoppix
I agree that knoppix would be the right choice, you can also try Slax,or Ubuntu(the current distro works as a live cd and installer both bundled in one.)
Everyone will tell witch distro worked for him.... it maybe or maybe NOT work for you try them and you'll see wich one is the best for you! For me Mandriva did the shot and I tryed Suse, Kubuntu, and Slackware to...
Check this link it maybe help you a little bit in choosing the best distro for your needs: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/in...firsttime=true
thx guys i settled on ubuntu.
if there is somethng about it let me know
You should definitely install the automatix package. It installs all the multimedia stuff, and just about anything else you could think of selecting....kitchen sink.
Curious - why this shell? :} ... I can't stand it, was forced to
use it for over a year.
Cheers,
Tink
When I first installed my PC-BSD system I desided that I would learn how to live and use a Unix like system in a command line enviroment. It wasn't necessary with PC-BSD to use a shell for more then ports but I wanted to learn computers more, including unix like. After awhile I learned to "live in a shell", often logged into KDE and several virtual consoles with a terminal emulator always handy. When I was doing this I was still really new and the default was (t)csh. I looked at the FreeBSD handbook and read the syntax for setting env var's for Bourne and C style shells. One of my friends was a Python programmer and a Fedora Core user (later Ubuntu then Windows), he used bash so I knew it was an ok shell and I don't really like sh since it has no line editing or history in the defualt editing mode (vi line editing is nice now tho). FreeBSD comes with sh and tcsh, but PC-BSD includes bash as well. So I chose to learn to use bash since the syntax for it was very simple, it's a good shell and I'm still comfortable with it. After some period of time I started to learn a little about ksh and zsh but never got to try them. About this time I was starting to get into C programming, having gotton board with C++ and Perl. I revisted tcsh and after awhile the suttle diffrences from bash we're enough for me to switch to it. When I do write shell scripts, they are always sh scripts - not bash, tcsh, or ksh. I use a simple sh for more portablity. (I actually hate shell scripting).
Zsh, the Zoidburg shell (just for fun), esh, and perlsh have cought my eye and are on my todo list but tcsh I love, I've just got to spend time audjusting my rc file to deal with a GNU userland. I kinda collect shells, terminal emulators, and window managers when possible :-)
tcsh, blackbox, and konsole however seem to keep coming back to me just like my interest in the C syntactical style.
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