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RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

boywander — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:29:26 GMT

Suse from the last Live release struck me as severely bloated and over complicated in layout. Not keen on the company's principles or more to the point YaST (horrible package manager).

But in general do not want pandering one click online 'stores' and such services, what a waste.

A couple that probably aren't included there, less well known and very worth a look.

SliTaz - tried this, very good ultra lightweight portable distro using Busybox kernel. Just odds are good that some command line work will be required to mount HDD volumes.

Pardus - full featured, independent and newb/casual user friendly distro from Turkey. Much like Ark linux in tone.

FaunOS - though currently discontinued :(, large and comparatively demanding. Arch linux based (but easy), full featured, pacman package manager, tweaked full KDE and trimmings.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

ChinaTown — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:41:39 GMT

Kubuntu ftw.

Though my computer supports it, I use Ubuntu.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

ASheridan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:10:03 GMT

OpenSuse is really quite good for people new to Linux, it was the first distro I properly started using. The test is pretty accurate, it came up with Suse, Fedora and Mandriva, which are all the distros I have used and been happy with. I might have a look at Mandriva 2008 now that it's available, and see what it can do...

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Keith_L — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:38:32 GMT

I just tried it and took me staright there lol My outcome was OpenSUSE 10.3. As i'm new to linux HELP :w00t:

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

cocorico — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:02:38 GMT

I tried the link [http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/] and it comes to a blank page entitled 'internal server error'. Just in case they had moved the page, I also went to the main page at http://www.zegeniestudios.net and clicked the Linux distro chooser link from the menu bar. Unfortunately this yielded the same result. I'd advise that this pinned thread be temporarily taken down until zegeniestudios fix their site, so forumites don't waste their time. It could be put back up when they have the service working again.

Many Thanks John

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

order-sol — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:34:56 GMT

This is what i get when i try to visit ;-;

[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r283/Holy_order_sol/zegeniestudios.png[/IMG]

kind of a shame i can't access the page =/ As I would have loved to have taken it~

I want to switch to linux/use it as often as i use windows, but i've never really had great success with finding the right distro.
Although~ i've always found Fedora to be rather fun \^^/ Which is what i have installed now.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

mob453 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:26:49 GMT

It told me ubuntu, so I installed 6.06 and dist upgraded to 7.04.

working perfectly and less than 4 weeks til 7.10.

But I'm not going to early upgrade, as they screwed up the rt2500 drivers in April, and network manager was flawed.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Deadringer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:59:21 GMT

It gave me Ubuntu.

Since I run Simply Mephis I guess it got it right.

I occasionally think about "upgrading" to RH4 - dont think I ever will tho, Im way too lazy.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Phitore — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:48:23 GMT

Interesting. It give me Fedora, Debian, ubuntu and kubuntu with Mandriva and OpenSuSE just one answer off. With that many it had to be right

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Drezha — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:58:49 GMT

Nice tool there.
Gave me Debian/FC/Ubuntu which is fine as I run Ubuntu.

And it's about damn time I tried Debian lol. But the 5 disc or whatever put me off.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

MartenReed — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:01:20 GMT

Came up with Ubuntu as first choice.

Which I already have installed, haha.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

turner74 — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:14:11 GMT

ive been dual booting win xp/ubuntu for a while with not much use of the ubuntu side of things l8ley but i recently bought fedora for dummies book for less than £2.00 with dvd and thats what the site suggested i use any ideas if i should stick with ubuntu or give fedora a shot i know they say nothing ventured nothing gained .but is there really much difference between the two when it comes to functionality?
p.s excuse my punctuation

cheers mark

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Patrick — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:21:09 GMT

i've just done the test and it tells me mandriva and fedora. i like fedora and use it regularly but at the moment i'm on xp. good shout logic for finding that site well impressed.

regards

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

NattyFido — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:39:14 GMT

Told me I should try Fedora, that was going to be my next exploration of Linux!! Told me my PC was too slow for Ubuntu, but its the fastest distro I've tried so far!

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

frosty15 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:34:20 GMT

Hmmmm...

I was suggested Ubuntu and Mandriva, fair enough.

But it also lists Kubuntu but says - Not suitable for Beginners ... EH? :ermm:

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Snakei — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:43:58 GMT

Just :cool:installed Kubuntu and trying it out with a little (ok,:Wow: a lot) of help from a friend at work.
this site gave me the answer of "Ubuntu and Mandriva" which i did consider, plumbed for Kubuntu as i was told it is one of the closer to "Windaz" distros available.

I think i made the right choice as i am having fun :D learning a heap of stuff i never needed to know with XP

Am loving the multiple desktop thing tho:w00t:

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

-Wiz!- — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:34:36 GMT

lol....sweet...ubuntu...what am d/ling as we speak/txt...:D

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

keithwill — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:23:53 GMT

Ubuntu or Mandriva.

Kubuntu didn't appear to due "linux knowledge", which seems a bit strange.

Wouldn't touch Mandriva, as have had bad experiences with it.

Already using Ubuntu, so there you go.

The test really depends on your answers, so could throw up just about anything.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

V-600 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:01:24 GMT

spot on. as a newbie ubuntu is good. will set about trying mandriva and see how it compares

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

malc_wright — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:08:53 GMT

Having dabbled with quite a few Distros' multi-booting more than one per PC using a Common /Home, Suse was my own first choice. I even voted for it in the poll.

However having recently suffered from the Suse 10.1, 'Suse Doesn't like the signatures of even Suse 10.0 official Cds' apparently they're 'bad', never mind the useful additional repositories. I've just installed Kubuntu.

The test came up with the results Debian, Mandriva and Kubuntu for me.

These are very differing Distros' both as to ease of installation, business model and release cycle.

So far I haven't broken Kubuntu, which with 19,419 'software packages' will probably keep me content for the longest.

Mad Malc
:cool:

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Skyrail — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:38:57 GMT

I took the test for my PC I want to Linux on first and it was Ubuntu/Fedora, which is pretty cool I must say as Ubuntu was my first choice for the machine, Fedora on the other hand I have only got Core One (I think its Fedora) with a book someone I know gave to me (some hefty book it is in that) but its pretty cool :)

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Steve_Y — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:41:37 GMT

It picked Ubuntu for me as well, with my current favourite distribution PCLinuxOS not recommended because it "may require Linux knowledge". In my opinion that's a rather odd complaint as I've never seen a distribution that doesn't require some Linux knowledge, they all have a learning curve.

I find it hard to see how PCLinuxOS is less beginner friendly than Ubuntu. One of the things that initially endeared it to me was that unlike Ubuntu I didn't need to edit Xorg.conf to configure my monitor and set a decent refresh rate. Of course that's not a bid deal, but it actually made the PCLinuxOS live CD usable without installation to my hard drive, while using the Ubuntu live CD gave me a headache with its fixed 60hz refresh rate. I imagine even that simple config file editing would be quite daunting and off-putting to some Mac/Windows users who expect a GUI to configure that kind of thing.

In my experience there are a lot of other little things that need tweaking in Ubuntu which just work in PClinuxOS, but of course that depends on the issues with your particular configuration.

My advice to a Linux newbie would be to try a few different popular distributions rather than going by this kind of chooser.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Mr Transparent — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:46:52 GMT

[quote]The ‘test’ is marginally helpful.[/quote]

Hey, I'd put it at a lot better than that. I had a little fun out of using it myself, but the main use I see for it is to direct newbies at, to slow down the "Which is the best Distro? Which is the best Distro?" noise that you sometimes get.

Know one guy who intermittently turned up to our LUG meeting, he'd ask which is the best distro, go away intending to try whatever was flavour of the month that month, and before he got round to trying it, say on average ~6 weeks, he'd get a new reccomendation of a distro he hadn't previously heard of, maybe from the LUG, maybe from the local Uni (or maybe a new release of one he already had). So what did he do? Well download that one, and repeat the cycle.

Not sure over 18 months he actually installed/tried to install much, but he got a good CD collection. At least this way he'd only have had two or three to vaccilate between!

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

DJ — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:57:56 GMT

[quote]Which one is easier Kubuntu or Ubuntu?[/quote]

Ubuntu. Kubuntu is rather less polished than Ubuntu and lacks the good configuration tools Ubuntu has.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

logicman — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:22:30 GMT

Bump! Mind the exhaust pipe!
I was waiting for Freakshow to get an answer before posting.

Thanks for the responses.
Did you leave feedback on the site?

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

BJM — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:18:16 GMT

FS - they are both basically the same, Ubuntu uses Gnome, Kubuntu uses KDE

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

FreakShow! — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:44:58 GMT

Mandriva, Kubuntu or Ubuntu.

I wasn't sure at the technical skills level, as it could lead into more advanced pieces of Linux.

Which one is easier Kubuntu or Ubuntu?

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

macca — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:07:19 GMT

It said PCLinuxOS failed to meet these criteria: “May require Linux knowledge”.

Hmmm not too sure about that, perhaps on the partitioning side of things, but it seems quite newbie friendly to me…

Macca

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Sparky — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:06:42 GMT

hi all
Kubuntu and mandriva
I use suse on desktop and kubunto on work laptop.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

macca — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:02:39 GMT

It does state that PCLinuxOS is included in the test, but it hasn’t featured in any of the results when I’ve taken the test…
…I’ll keep messing :D

Macca

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

ZoneAlert — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:58:57 GMT

It came up with Mandriva and Kubuntu for me. I have used Mandriva before but not for very long and I've used SUSE which it never mentioned, but I've been on PCLinuxOS now for more than 6 months and have no intention of going back.

Do you think they know about PCLinuxOS?

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

macca — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:58:27 GMT

As I thought…… good old Gentoo. :cool:

The ‘test’ is marginally helpful.

I’ve taken it a few times with different mindsets (ie. from newiew perspectives) and it seems to turn up a number of recommended distros. There are just SO many distros to choose from that at the end of the test, the individual is probably going to choose for themselves anyway. There are a number of distros aimed at newbies that aim to ‘just work’ so this comes as no surprise.

The test is useful in eliminating a large number of distros from the choice, but again, it’s all down to personal preference – which is what Linux is all about.

Lots of fun though :D

Cheers,

Macca

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

richardr — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:51:39 GMT

Fedora Core came up for me which is exactly what I am running. A very comprehensive and accurate system. Very impressed.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

BJM — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:36:05 GMT

Ubunu / Kubuntu or Debian (strange mix?)

I think I'll stick to PCLinuxOS

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

Just Jon — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:08:10 GMT

Cheers for that! Downloaded a distro to have a mess with! Not tried Linux before, wish me luck!

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

spike09 — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:53:33 GMT

Ubuntu/Kubuntu for Me my favourite Live-CDs and interestingly one I have never tried Mandriva.

Chris

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

logicman — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:43:08 GMT

Thanks peeps.

Two hits and I'm pinned. That's a first ever on the www for me.:)

What do you think?
Would it help newbies?

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

900i — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:33:48 GMT

Fedora Core, I DON'T THINK SO.

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

DJ — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:06:55 GMT

Kubuntu for me, which is exactly what I'm running :)

RE: Linux Distribution Chooser

900i — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:55:41 GMT

Sticky, sticky.