On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:28 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> 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.
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I am a Red Hat / Fedora / RHEL / CentOS (RHEL clone) user and I think
Fedora 3 is terrific.
But for this purpose - a Linux where the decisions are pretty much made
it seems that Ubuntu is probably the easiest of all.
Fedora Core, if you can get SmartPM installed...it then becomes easy to
install all of the other stuff including Acrobat, Java etc.
I think something like
yum --enablerepo dag install smart smart-gui smart-update
should get it done. I think that Fedora 4 is gonna be great.
Craig
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