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Posted by Monqui on Tue Jan 18th at 4:54pm 2005

I agree with Des on the Ubuntu front. I installed that on my laptop just to take a look at it, and it was quite painless. [addsig]



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Posted by m0p on Tue Jan 18th at 5:33pm 2005

Personally, I would get Debian testing since I use it and love it, but you may get lost in the installation process. SuSE, Fedora Core 3, Ubuntu, are all great and easy to install. I would recommend one of those, although, there are other Unix style OS's which are worth a try. FreeBSD is good, and don't listen to those who say its hell to install. My first installation of it was painless, although it's a harder Os to start with if your a Unix newb. So, I say go with the Linux distros I mentioned already, they will give you a good introduction to the world of Non-Microsoft!




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jan 18th at 5:39pm 2005

I'll go for this Novell then, seems good looking and proffessional, and thier headquarters is huge apparantly (someone on IRC said they live just up the road from it). [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Tue Jan 18th at 6:02pm 2005

I'd like to give Linux a try sometimes too. Tell what you think of it after testing it Myrk.
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Posted by Dred_furst on Tue Jan 18th at 6:47pm 2005

Ive installed debian, and i must say that the dual boot config part is the most useful ive seen, actually says that if it isnt there, dont do it. sure enough, win2k should be on the mbr, unlike in redhat where i got annoyed as the help hadn't been updated, and my reasoning meant i thought that I had to put it on the partition :/

Silly redhat :/
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Posted by SaintGreg on Tue Jan 18th at 8:12pm 2005

I have to disagree by saying that either KDE or GNOME are the biggest and best x-windows managers. Being the biggest means lots of bloat

For those who don't like bloat but would rather like a lightweight, and fast windowing system, xfce (www.xfce.org)




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Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 18th at 8:29pm 2005

Granted I am NOT a fan of KDE, I do like gnome. Xfce looks pretty. If it's faster then Gnome, I'll check it out.
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