Re: I am getting new PC for office purpose, can I install Linux instead of Windows
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:04:55 -0400
VT wrote:
Could you suggest which Linux Disti better than Fedora,
Everyone has their favorite distribution. You appear to be saying you are going to use it when everyone else is using windows. That is not generally a good idea if computers are an essential function of the organization such that they have to talk to each other seamlessly. Guarantee you they will not do it seamlessly and your in-house folks are not likely able to help you or care to help you. Even if you do not notice gross problems there are guaranteed to be minor compatibility problems which can be crucial as Microsoft is often deliberately obnoxious.
Open Office is more than good enough to be used instead of MS Office. But if MS does what it has been doing for years it will introduce critical incompatibilities or even simply search for indications of a thing having been created by OO and refuse to load it. They deliberately screwed HTML and almost got away with doing the same to Java. They will be doing it to keep OO out of the competition.
In other words, don't do it.
I have Linux RH 9.0, is that Ok,
No. Way too old.
otherwise I should have Linux RH ES 3.0.
Do you mean RHEL 3.0? Support for it costs money. I don't know how much but it is your personal budget. Look into it first. If you go with RH then FC4 is the only thing to use at this time AND do yum -yt upgrade as soon as you know it has installed. This assumes at least a DSL connection. If all you have is a modem the first upgrade will take a day or so.
I don't
have debian or Mandarake CD's, I don't know howmuch it costs. Thanks
in advance.
They are all available for free downloads online. If I remember correctly some of them like Suse charge for upgrades to what is on a distribution disc. It should all be spelled out on their home pages.
Back when I decided to switch to linux full time I choose Redhat solely because at the time it was the most common. I could not find any other good reason to choose among the distros. i reasoned that being the most common there would be the most people to help.
I have participated in this newsgroup when I switch to linux full time about 7 years ago and almost all the questions have been distribution independent so maybe my choice was not for the best reason. However so many years later I do not know of any reason to choose one distribution over another if you want a fully functional linux distribution. There are some special purpose distributions such as for A/V or just to be "damn small" linux or that will run from a CD or some other special purpose. I am certain there are reasons for the different distributions but I have yet to come across one that makes a difference to me.
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