Installation of the proprietary nVidia driver is easier with Fedora 14;
the hassles with removing the Nouveau driver have been greatly simplified.
We use Fedora, although I certainly cannot claim that it has been
problem free. It does seem better suited for centrally-managed systems,
as compared with the most frequently mentioned alternative, Ubuntu,
which is perhaps more suitable for a single owner-operator environment.
On 02/22/11 10:16, David Roberts wrote:
Hello all,
Quick question on linux varieties. For years (and years) I have used
fedora (after Ultrix of course). In fact, most of my computers are
running FC7 (that long ago), it's very stable and works fine. However,
since it is no longer supported, I'm toying with upgrading.
I upgraded one machine to FC13. However, this nouveau driver thing is
killing me, and getting my nvidia drivers installed is hopeless (I have
followed every thread on this and I simply give up - it's not worth
it). With a Zalman monitor it doesn't matter - nouveau works fine and
my stereo is good - so I don't really care (or do I).
The question is this - what flavors of linux out there are simplest to
install - work instantly with various hardwares, and run stereo
seamlessly (either Zalman stereo or hardware stereo with an emitter).
For zalman anything works - which is why I'm going that way - but I
still need hardware stereo on a few machines. So, for hardware, I need
my nvidia drivers to install easily.
I'm downloading ubuntu - is that a good choice? Can I run different
flavors of linux with nfs and share drives in a local network (so one
has fc7, one has fc13, and another has ubuntu)?
Thanks
Dave
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