On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:52 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > A.Muller wrote: > > Hello everybody ! > > I've been monitoring this mailing list for a couple of months and > > received answers to my questions about OO. Thanks to the benefactors. > > My experience with OO goes back to 2005 and I'm very satisfied with > > it. Now I would like to cross the Rubicon and eliminate, gradually, XP > > from my machine. I've read many posts relating this or that > > bug/difficulty of OO with some specific distributions of Linux. In > > your experience, which one would be the best to start with among the > > different distros : Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian or whatever ? Thank > > you for your advice. A.Muller > > > > Well, in my experience its OpenSuse. But that's the great thing about > experience: it's subjective and based on one's own personal preference. > A lot of people here will promote Ubuntu. But the best thing is that > since they're free you can experiment. Download one or two and see > which one fits you.
I would recommend trying a few distributions before settling on one, as they all have their own personalities. Since you have choice, exercise this new freedom. Debian and Ubuntu share the apt package systems (try one). Mandriva, SuSE, and Redhat share the rpm package system (try one). Gentoo has it's own system (portage) which can be harder to learn. I have noticed new Linux users stick with the first distribution they try, until it fails them in some way. Don't let that be your motivator. When selecting it is good to compare differences between package system, system configuration, user community support, package update dependability, among other things. My path has looked like this: Redhat->SuSE->Debian->Gentoo I found Debian updates quiet dependable for servers, but with Gentoo I never need a distro version upgrade. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
