On May 28, 3:16 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Switching to Linux which distro to use, Ubuntu?
As Roy points out elsewhere in this article, iimportant to point out
that about 99% of Linux is the same regardless of which distribution
you use. The key considerations of a distribution are (in this order)
1. Support - does the vendor provide timely updates and bug fixes.
2. Compatibility - does the vendor support commercial 3rd party
applications
as well as GNU applications?
3. Application support - what beyond GNU applications is supported?
4. Ease of Use - All Linux distributions are easy to use, but a
"friendly" distribution that doesn't meet the first two criteria is
probably worse that a slightly "hostile" distribution that has full
support, compatibility, and application support.
5. Ease of installation - system should be able to install itself on
any "Linux Ready" computer.
6. Hardware support - A distribution that includes binary drivers for
proprietary hardware is probably going to be more useful on laptops
and desktops with that hardware than a great distribution that can't
handle the WiFi card or doesn't support 3D accelleration on the
display card.
Other things worth considering:
Support for virtualization - as host and as client. A good
distribution should support VMWare and Xen, and really good
distribution supports virtual machines on almost any type of storage.
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> | Overall Mandriva is my favorite distro from these tests. I do have Ubuntu
> | installed on my main computer but if I were to do a fresh install I would
> | surely change. At least that is my personal opinion with the current releases
> | tested so far.
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> http://opencomputer.net/2008/05/27/switching-to-linux-which-distro-to...
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> Here is another typical article where it's blindly assumed that everything but
> Ubuntu isn't GNU/Linux:
Typical FUD. Often its' a missguided or poorly informed reporter,
other times its a more malicious attempt to subvert Linux by pointing
out flaws in Ubuntu - that don't exist in more commercially oriented
implementations.
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