You are exactly right. There are good linux distros out there. I have
used several of them. Some are great desktop OS's. Some are good for the
small footprint. Some are great for making bootable CD's to run
antivirus/data recovery apps, and some are great for making
roll-your-own routers and fi
Come on you gotta give better reasons than this ;)
Good non-"flavor of the month" distros. Don't lump the whole base into
the same box. Yea there are as many linux distros as there are linux
geeks ;)
Take my favorite distro, debian:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:17 -0600, Pete Davis wrote:
> I think I
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Tom DeReggi wrote:
Why do people that prefer FreeBSD prefer FreeBSD?
I prefer FreeBSD (rather BSD in general) MOSTLY because that's what
I know best. FreeBSD, also, is (generally) not built to be a
desktop OS, but a server platform. I know there are Linux distros
that
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Subject: [WISPA] Linux distro for the desktop
I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. How
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I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process
of evaluating which Linux distro I want to put on my laptop. I
would just go with FreeBSD, but I want to try thi
One more that I like. Cost some $$ for the box about $49.00 I believe.
Xandros! That is Debian based.
Bo
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On 1/12/07, N White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Butch Evans wrote:
> I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process of
> evaluating which Linux distro
Butch Evans wrote:
I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process of
evaluating which Linux distro I want to put on my laptop. I would
just go with FreeBSD, but I want to try this Linux thing...FreeBSD
makes the BEST server platform (no flames, please), but their desktop
O
PCBSD.org has a Freebsd-based desktop environment that is pretty nice.
Two ISO files, and its complete with "office" apps, etc.
I loaded it on a "kiosk" type PC for the lobby of a hotel that we
support, and made an auto-login account with almost no rights, and 1
desktop icon, Firefox, labeled
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From: Butch Evans
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> I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process
> of evaluating which Linux distro I want to put
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> I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process
> of evaluating which Linux distro I want to put on my laptop. I
> would just go with FreeBSD, but I want to try this
Easy & with the highest 'user friendly' factor for kids, family,
non-computer geeks ==> Ubuntu
Most technically advanced, source build distribution ==>gentoo
Those are probably the two ends of the spectrum :-)
On 1/11/07, Butch Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and sou
Personally, I use ubuntu. Like it, primarily because it's debian-based (I like the debian
package system a lot more than the rpm varieties), very actively supported/developed, and
hacker friendly. Have about 7 ubuntu machines at home (some of which are servers for the
community wireless network
I am a FreeBSD guy. Heart and soul. However, I am in the process
of evaluating which Linux distro I want to put on my laptop. I
would just go with FreeBSD, but I want to try this Linux
thing...FreeBSD makes the BEST server platform (no flames, please),
but their desktop OS is not the best.
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