Since then I've installed & worked with RedHat, CentOS (a RH 64-bit recompile for AMD-64), Slackware, Knoppix, Helix (a forensic-specialized version of Knoppix) , SuSe, and Mandrake. I've pretty much settled on Mandrake, mostly because it typically has better hardware support than the other distros because it is updated more frequently, and because I like its urpmi updater. I do like the Debian-based Knoppix DVD live distro and installer, but a couple of the packages I use (mplayer, for example) are not as readily available for Debian as they are for Mandrake. All told, I've used Linux as my main desktop environment for about 12 years.
To satisfy the work-based Windows requirement I run VMWare & XP. I like having that little "x" button in the upper right-hand corner of the VMWare Windows frame that I can click on whenever XP decides to misbehave.
--Doug
On 10/21/06, Alfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
> >
> >
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