Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday June 16 2006 18:05, Ohad Lutzky wrote: > Umm... What's wrong with Gentoo's Hebrew support? I mean, yeah, okay, > Ubuntu's is better, but Gentoo's isn't BAD. Well, I never said it is BAD (tm). I like Gentoo. I run Gentoo everywhere I can. I just can hardly imagine myself bootstrapping Gen

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-16 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Umm... What's wrong with Gentoo's Hebrew support? I mean, yeah, okay, Ubuntu's is better, but Gentoo's isn't BAD. On 6/16/06, Michael Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday June 11 2006 14:51, boazg wrote: > me and the farm crowd strongly stand behind ubuntu. First of all, it is very nic

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Sunday June 11 2006 14:51, boazg wrote: > me and the farm crowd strongly stand behind ubuntu. First of all, it is very nice to hear that the "farm crowd" still exists. I certainly would like to hear more about it. > the 6.06 release takes > simple to a whole new level. it has hebrew, a new,

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-12 Thread Ohad Lutzky
On 6/11/06, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: On the contrary - this is the STRONG side of Fedora. On every other distro, when the next version is released, the last release is unsupported. With Fedora, you have another year of updates, not security, but real updates,

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Nadav Har'El wrote: My favorite distribution, and the one I use on my home computer, is Fedora Core. It comes with (or allows you to install through yum) almost everything imaginable, including Hebrew support. But, while yum makes it very easy to install new software and to keep your system up

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Some very important points which are critical for laptop users - any distribution which we want to install on a laptop must support these. 1. Built-in support for IPW2200, firmware included. Installing these is a lot of work manually. 2. Hibernation support 3. Support for special buttons (especia

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread Ohad Lutzky
This is true for most distributions, methinks... notable exceptions are Gentoo- and Debian- based ones. On 6/11/06, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006, Adir Abraham wrote about "[Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution": > Hi, >

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread boazg
FC5 is nothing like RHEL4.On 6/11/06, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006, Adir Abraham wrote about "[Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution": > Hi,>> As usual I'm calling for your help, to choose the right distribution for> t

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006, Adir Abraham wrote about "[Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution": > Hi, > > As usual I'm calling for your help, to choose the right distribution for > the crowd. My favorite distribution, and the one I use on my home computer, is

[Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-06 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi, As usual I'm calling for your help, to choose the right distribution for the crowd. The population we aim to is the average person who wants everything to work properly, with an easy update/install mechanism, easy installation methods (has to be graphical, at least), and with a lot of su