I vouch for Ubuntu too. FC always has the stability problem for me and I am too tired to find right drivers and compile the programs. I switched after FC8. Ubuntu's repositories seems to be much more reliable and it worked with every program that I am using, including 3D imaging (I am using Nvidia shuttle glass though). You can easily retrieve the Nvidia driver from the repository if Ubuntu hasn't already done it for you. But the bad side is that you are going lose your computation skill since you have less problem to handle.
Nian Huang, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:16 AM, David Roberts <drobe...@depauw.edu> wrote: > Hello all, > > Quick question on linux varieties. For years (and years) I have used fedora > (after Ultrix of course). In fact, most of my computers are running FC7 > (that long ago), it's very stable and works fine. However, since it is no > longer supported, I'm toying with upgrading. > > I upgraded one machine to FC13. However, this nouveau driver thing is > killing me, and getting my nvidia drivers installed is hopeless (I have > followed every thread on this and I simply give up - it's not worth it). > With a Zalman monitor it doesn't matter - nouveau works fine and my stereo > is good - so I don't really care (or do I). > > The question is this - what flavors of linux out there are simplest to > install - work instantly with various hardwares, and run stereo seamlessly > (either Zalman stereo or hardware stereo with an emitter). For zalman > anything works - which is why I'm going that way - but I still need hardware > stereo on a few machines. So, for hardware, I need my nvidia drivers to > install easily. > > I'm downloading ubuntu - is that a good choice? Can I run different flavors > of linux with nfs and share drives in a local network (so one has fc7, one > has fc13, and another has ubuntu)? > > Thanks > > Dave >
