What about the compatibility issue. I know people say that if the live CD
will run then the installed version will run. When I first got into this
('01ish) some live cd's no longer WORKED 100% after being installed. Is that
still an issue?
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, James Finstrom <
jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> I see suse as "you know redhats way is neat let's break it" I am sort
> of biased as I was raised on debian and it's variants. That's the
> thing with rhinux most answers are personal preference. Example I
> don't do gnome and I know people who think kde is too windows. I would
> grab the live editions of as many distros as you can and run em all
> see what clicks
>
> On 10/18/08, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> > After a long battle with technology, Stephen wrote:
> >>> On 10/18/08, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I've done web searches but I prefer talking one-on-many. Which is the
> >>>> best laptop distro? Please be aware that if the group-decision is a
> dvd
> >>>> I will need someone to burn it as I do not have a dvd-burner.
> >
> > FWIW, the 5" DVD+-RWs are pretty darn cheap at $35 after shipping from
> > NewEgg.
> > In 2000, a 4x CD-RW was $180. My, how stuff gets cheaper (except laptop
> > parts....)
> >
> >>> hardware works by simply installing the module back ports. A lot of
> >>> folks don't like ubuntu but I work on borked centos boxes all day so
> >>> when I get home I want things to just work. That said the next big
> >>> thing is suppose to be pclinuxos so it may be worth a look
> >
> > RPM has its flaws, though they've papered over most of them. All distros
> > have
> > warts; the key is to find one whose warts you can live with.
> >
> >> that said Gentoo is a decent choice as well, however it is a lot more
> >> involved to get running
> >
> > The thing that takes the longest is setting all the USE flags. Then
> > you "emerge kde" and let it run overnight, and everything after that is
> > incremental. Unless something like the libexif mess that happened a
> while
> > back happens again.
> >
> >> Or possibly OpenSUSE, but while it may have lots of bells and whistles
> it
> >> loads a TON of stuff.
> >
> > SuSE has always had more weird bugs than other distros IME.
> >
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