A nice, simple, easy distro?
Hiya, I'm looking for a distro with the simplicity of Slackware, power of Fedora, beauty of SuSE, and the easines of Ubuntu. For a while, I've been using Ubuntu, but want something different. I can't excatly explain why, it's just Ubuntu has gotten old. I'm looking for a new distro that is easy to use, but still has the power of a power user. What I want is a distro that both a beginner and an expert can use, love, and enjoy. The things holding me back from installing and trying every distro are:
Ubuntu has _full_ support for my setup, albiet some minor discrepinces with my ATI Xpress 200M, and is a "go to" for me. I've used Mandriva, SLAX, and SuSE and always had problems with their package management. I need a distro with the range of software of Ubuntu. And for those of you who are going to ask me about my hardware: Output for lspci Quote:
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Try Debian. Use the new Etch installer. If you read the install manual, there's a section about hd-media (installing from an iso stored on the hard drive).
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Ok, I've looked into Debian, and it looks great. Only one thing, what are the differences between sarge and etch besides updated packages?
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To the user, mostly updated packages. But here's a good description from the Debian website.
In all reality, stable is for servers which can't break (all it gets is security updates). I would say unstable is more stable than most bleeding edge distros like Fedora Core, but it lags a little bit in updated packages (like Gnome 2.16 or Beryl for example). Testing is kind of a middle ground. I like to run testing or unstable on the desktop and stable on servers and my work laptop since I can't waste time screwing it up. EDIT: One of the biggest differences you'll notice is a newer kernel. 2.6.17 in Etch (I believe) and 2.4.27/2.6.8 in Sarge. But mostly updated packages... |
From the debian site:
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Ok, having some trouble here getting Debian. I'd prefer to use the DVD install method, but the torrents are not working. Should I go ahead and do a network install?
EDIT: Nevermind, WLAN cards are not supported . . . |
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