You may find sidux to be the "Cat's pajamas"! http://sidux.com/ Very very up to date (sidux is a rolling distro tracking Debian Sid and exp. plus their own very well done tweaks. releases every 3 months as live idistros), fast and excellent support forums, and for those of us who dislike huge "attidtude" and posturing there is siduxunderground forum. http://sidux-underground.com
Watch those Bears... they love a good snack from time to time ;-)! michael crane wrote: > 2009/11/27 Robert Marma <robert_marma at yahoo.com>: >> Hi all >> >> No, I haven't been eaten by a bear! :-) I'm still downloading & burning >> Linux ISOs when and where I get the opportunity. Unfortunately, I don't >> have Internet access where I live, believe it or not :-( --so I have to >> wait until I visit my daughter or go to the public library to connect via >> wireless LAN. >> >> There seems to be quite a variation in what different distros offer, so I >> really have to choose carefully. I simply haven't yet decided which one I >> should use. I want simplicity of compilatiion and installation, but still >> want power, versatility, and numerous features--which, I suppose, are >> mutually exclusive. >> >> Thanx again for all your help and advice, and I'll keep you posted once I >> pick a system. Incidentally, I'm now leaning toward dual-partition with a >> choice of OS for booting. > > I'm pleased to hear you didn't get eaten by a bear. > You can buy a cd collection of everything I think debian did that. > I'm out of touch, I think your choices are slackware, fedora or > Ubunto. I'd go with fedora myself. > regards > > mick > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
