Owen: - I have used KDE and GNOME. But KDE is the desktop I use most - I consider Mandrake 9.0 has been the best distro ever. The second one is Debian-31r0a-i386. I will give you a third and is Red Hat 6.2 - I ran Mandrake and Debian on PC with a processor Duron of 850 Mhz with 256 MB in ram memory and with a motherboard MSI. MSI Motherboard damage and I replaced it with a very cheap motherboard ASRock. Then I used a processor Intel 2.4 Ghz, Intel Motherboard and 512 MB in ram. I ran Red Hat on a 486, Sys Board and starting with 8 Mb in ram
On Friday 20 October 2006 11:27 pm, Owen Densmore wrote: > OK, Doug has brought up a point I've wondered about. > > Friamers .. another question .. well three actually .. for you all: > - Which Linux desktop distros have you used? > - Which distro do/did you like best? > - What hardware did you run it on? > > Years ago at Sun I was a RedHat + Gnome user .. indeed in 2000-2002, > it, on the Thinkpad hardware, had taken over SunLabs. We even put it > in our JavaCar and found it worked with most of the weird drivers we > needed. > > It was a bit hard to get going on laptops, however. Audio was quite > difficult, requiring rebuilding the kernel with new drivers, and > getting the Sleep function to work correctly was tough. But all in > all, RedHat + Gnome + Thinkpad was quite successful. Gnome was even > available on Solaris, so the interoperability was great between the > Sun servers and the laptops. > > So anyone else out there taken on the Linux desktop challenge? > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Douglas Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: October 20, 2006 6:26:33 AM MDT > > To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Leopard vs. Vista > > Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > <[email protected]> > > > > Mandriva 2007 'la Ora' with KDE 3.5.4 (and a slew of whatever other > > packages you prefer).. > > http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007 > > > > On 10/20/06, fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you think is more impressive, > > advanced and useful, the new.. > > > > ..Mac OS X Leopard with "Time Machine", > > "Spotlight" and "Ruby on Rails".. > > http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html > > > > ..or the new Windows Vista > > with Aero, WPF and WCF ? > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ > > > > -J. > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > > > -- > > Doug Roberts, RTI International > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 505-455-7333 - Office > > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
