On Friday 13 May 2005 09:22, Victor Odhner wrote:
> What is the closest thing, in the Linux world, to a
> distro that just works, where new releases of apps
> are available promptly and just fall into place?
> I'm enough of a hacker to get the results I want
> in specific cases, and to build special tools to
> do non-standard things; but I don't want every
> install, and every update, to become that kind of
> exercise.
>
> I'm sure that Linspire would *not* suit me. Maybe
> Gentoo, which I've been thinking about, is more on
> target. I'm not in a hurry, I can wait for things
> to compile while I'm off at work ...
You would probably hate Gentoo. Gentoo requires much more tolerance and
knowledge to configure, but it gets the 'best' out of every piece as it is
designed to compile from scratch.
For what you want, Redhat's Fedora 3 w/GNOME is your best bet. If you desire
to do cdburning, you should install KDE as well and use k3b as it is very
simple. (Except for mp3 support.) Redhat has the RH Network, which allows for
update notifications on a daily basis. And, if you have a high speed
connection, it's quick and easy.
That's what I would recommend to any new user. Fedora would be the way, since
you appear to want to be productive instead of learn the internals.
--
Sincerely,
Jason Spatafore
http://www.spatafore.net
A+ Certified Service Professional
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