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doobit

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Posted: April 19 2006,17:53

I'm using Mepis on my big, fast machine. Mepis is nice because it includes a lot of the non-GNU free software that you would need to download and install yourself with some of the other distros. On everything else I use DSL.

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clivesay

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Posted: April 19 2006,18:05

Doobit and I are cut from the same cloth

I have a DSL remaster for most everything but do like my Mepis 3.4.3 install. OS's like DSL are great for learning and have a ton of functionality in a small footprint. OS's like Mepis are built to have everything fully integrated and they do a really good job. I love tinkering with config files but sometimes it's nice to boot into something where everything 'just works'. For me, Mepis has been just that. It's a livecd also so you can test drive before you install.

Good luck.

Chris

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Posted: April 20 2006,00:34

I tried Mepis too, liked it but I didn't like how they treated their community so I switched to PCLOS which also comes with a lot of non-GnuFree (spelling?) software out of hte box. I tried ubuntu but my god its a pita if you want to right away use mp3's & other stuff most ppl expect to work "out of the box". I highly recommend PCLOS for any new user because it also uses Synaptic if you want to install new software (which is far more intelligent than most RPM based distros I've seen).

Other than that, I use dsl on a small TS server I run here at home. I really need to dualboot PCLOS with XP again and to find out if PCLOS supports SATA drives (I think they do)... Happy distro hopping. :;):

Avey

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Posted: April 20 2006,02:40

I tried installing Red Hat and Slakware on my laptop years and years ago and failed. So my first linux was an old version of Mandrake.

I'm about to upgrade that same laptop to Debian.

But I really use DSL for just about everything.

alba1314, I'd suggest going and poking around distrowatch and seeing all the different distros for yourself. There's a lot of stuff out there.

Good luck finding your favorite!

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green

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Posted: April 20 2006,03:32

I agree with Aveline. PCLOS (PCLinuxOS) is a very smooth and very polished distro, Texstar has done a superb job. I use DSL most of the time, but others in my house use PCLOS exclusively. I partake and enjoy it myself from time to time, but I just can not stay away from DSL. PCLOS, as a desktop OS, smashes all the other big dogs,... hands down. It does just about everything outta the box and it comes on ONE cd, not 3 or 4 or a dozen. I have read that SATA support exists with PCLOS, but do not have SATA drives so I have not really looked into it. Bottom line is, DSL rules. PCLOS comes in as a very close second.

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