[Anon] Anon User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE----- > Message-type: plaintext > > It sounds like a stupid question perhaps, but I'm currently on windows and am > giving serious thought and study time to at minimum switching to a windows > - - linux dual boot arrangment. > > So far I'm leaning toward either Debian or Mandriva, does freenet prefer one > better than the other? Or does it matter much if it's one of the 'mainstream' > distro's? As others have said, the exact distro doesn't matter much to freenet and it will be possible to get it working one way or another. If you're new to Linux and are going to be using it as a desktop, your first priority should be choosing one that's relatively easy to use / manage. I'd recommend looking at Ubuntu (or kUbuntu which uses KDE and is therefore a bit more windows-like), Fedora Core and similar. For what it's worth I installed Ubuntu a few months ago for a Linux neophyte friend who was sick of his XP constantly being pwned no matter how careful he was, and am pleasantly suprised that he actually likes it, has commented how much easier various things are on it vs. windows, and somehow still hasn't "got around" to reinstalling XP as dual boot :) Admittedly I did help configure it for him, e.g. as per http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats (the default install is 100% pure Free software) and stuff like installing all the "suggested" packages for k3b to give it its full impressive range of ninja powers. Anyway if you make use of all the FAQs and helpful forums out there I'm sure you could manage.
I have used Debian for a dedicated node successfully, via a manual Sun jre and freenet install. Apparently it's OK as a desktop, but I'm pretty sure Ubuntu does things better from a new user's perspective - it's based on Debian anyway so you still get apt-get etcetera. Currently I use Gentoo, with freenet manually installed although it does have a package for it. Unlike the guy downthread though (unless he was joking) I would absolutely _NOT_ recommend Gentoo to a new user or any "normal user" who doesn't want to tweak their OS. It's a hardcore everything-is-configurable nerd distro. How nerdy? Well IIRC they only just made an installer for it, up till then you got a root shell and an instructions.txt and had to do everything manually :) Bob _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
