Re: Recommendations on switching from RedHat to new distro?
From: Trog Woolley (trog_at_email.fake)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:15:00 +0000 (UTC)
While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway scottseansmith2_NO_SPAM@NO-SPAM.hotmail.com typed:
> Some time back, I installed RedHat Linux on a Dell Dimension XPS T800r box
> at home and set up CVS, Samba, Eclipse, and a few other things on it. About
> a year later, RedHat stopped free updates/support for weekend users like me,
> so I'm looking to switch to another distro.
>
> A friend at work recommended SuSE. I went to the web site, but had trouble
> figuring out what to download. The RedHat stuff came on CD and was easy to
> set up.
>
> I don't want to start a war here, but can someone recommend a distro that is
> friendly to a non-power user such as myself? (and maybe point me to the CD
> images or whatever?)
I've just upgraded my box from RH7.1 to FC3 with hardly any effort.
It did rearrange my desktops a bit but pretty well everything just works.
The only thing I'm having grief with is playing videos. The xmms as
shipped doesn't handle MP3's (err why?) and the xine that I downloaded
gobbles up all the cpu and swap space about 10 seconds into an MP3 and
the box sits there thrashing. It's BRS time. I've tried recompiling xine
but it won't, complaining somethings aren't installed (SDL and ARTS which
they are). But playing videos is something I rarely do, so I don' care.
On the other hand, I've just installed FC3 on a desktop box at work,
downloaded the same xine and it handles videos perfectly. The user for
whom this is destined is going to love using Linux in preference to M$.
(She is the prototype for what is hoped to be all of the staff moving
to Linux on the desktop - we are making sure everything is 100%).
Some people love SuSE. I tried 8.1 when it first came out but I found
YAST to be a complete waste of time; fine for installing anything but
if you want to change the config on say your modem, you had to uninstall
the device and reinstall it (ie there was no change facility)
I also wasn't impressed with some of the dependancies. SuSE
insisted on installing K3B and if you delete it and then want to install
something else from the CD's, K3B comes back. It also runs KBEAR
constantly - why run an FTP client unless you are downloading a file.
I like as little running on my box as possible - remember an idle box is
a happy box.
In the recent LinxFormat distro rating, the top five were Mandrake,
RedHat, SuSE, Debian and Yellow Dog. As someone else suggested, pick
an rpm distro and go with that.
-- Trog Woolley | trog at trogwoolley dot com (A Croweater back residing in Pommie Land with Linux) Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna
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