Hi, Maybe CentOS 5 or Scientific Linux 5 is another option for you. Because you have experiences of RPM based distributions, I think you can install and maintain software easily. CentOS and Scientific Linux are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, so actually they are similarly as Fedora Core. You can install the NVIDIA driver from ATrpm (http://atrpms.net/) or http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/i386/contrib/video/ BTW, I think CentOS and Scientific Linux are much more robust than UBUNTU.
Xiaoguang On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Roberts <drobe...@depauw.edu> 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 > -- Xiaoguang Xue, PhD student Utrecht University Crystal & Structural Chemistry Padualaan 8. Room N807 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands Tel. +31-30-253-2383
