Re: I want to migrate to Linux
- From: General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:53:13 -0600
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:55:56 +0000, pcbldrNinetyEight wrote:
I want to migrate from WIN98SE to Linux and am looking for advise.
I recently built two Identical WIN98SE PCs. Even though I expect these
machines to last many years I know someday they will wear out and
WIN98SE compatible hardware will not be available. I have no intention
of ever buying MS OS again so I must take action so I can continue
building and using PCs in the future.
One PC will serve as a test machine and the other will be my primary PC.
My plan is to start by booting from a LiveCD, then install Linux in a
dual boot with WIN98SE, then install just Linux. If I am successful I
will abandon WIN98SE on both machines.
My priorities in order of importance are: Support for my hardware. (I
omitted a list for brevity in this first post but will supply if you are
interested) Support for WINE so I may continue to use my current
software for which there are no Linux alternatives.
I need to get this OS up and running quickly with little previous
knowledge. Until I have time to learn the syntax of Linux I need to pick
a distro that supports point and click as much as possible. I have told
my wife that she too is migrating to Linux and she also needs a point
and click OS.
I am considering the following distros and given my goals I would
appreciate your input and or additional suggestions: PCLinuxOS
Ubantu
I chose this NG to post because it looks fairly active. If there is a
better NG for my questions then please advise. Thank you for your help.
If you are on dialup you will want a stable distro. You have probably
figured out that there are a lot distros available and they all have
different objectives. Some distros aim to be up to the minute while
others are targeted at people who want a distro that will be supported
for a very long time and which requires the least amount of work to
maintain it, these types of distros are called "stable". From a users
point of view a stable distro will tend to have fewer features and it's
components will be older and have fewer features. However they also have
very many fewer updates than the cutting edge distros. In the Redhat
family the cutting edge distro is Fedora, the stable distro is Redhat
Enterprise Linux. Fedora generally has hundreds of megabytes of updates a
week, RHEL has 1 or 2 megabytes per week. The reason that the update
burden is so low on RHEL is that it only provides bug fixes and security
patches, there are no new features or improvements as there are on
Fedora. The free version of Redhat EL is called CentOS. The latest
version of CentOS is 5.1. I recommend that you give CentOS 5.1 a try. In
the Ubuntu family the stable version is designated by the extension LTS.
The latest leading edge Ubuntu is 7.10, the latest LTS version is 6.06
LTS. In both the CentOS and Ubuntu LTS cases the distros are vintage
2006. I get the impression that you aren't using leading edge hardware so
the age of these distros shouldn't be a problem for you. The advantage is
that you will be able to update them using dialup because they have so
many fewer updates. Actually I'm making an assumption that Ubuntu LTS is
like CentOS because I'm a Fedora and CentOS user, I play with Ubuntu but
I don't like it so I don't use it regularly. I can say with certainty
that you will be able to do CentOS updates without a problem with CentOS
5.1.
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