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[.sentinel]

What is the best linux distro for someone who is a noob when it comes to linux but like customization. I also have a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse set plus a dlink wireless adapter DWL-G122

[IYP]

FC if your new to linux....learn how to handle gentoo tho

[.sentinel]

I am afraid gentoo won't recognize my wireless adapter

[masterofpuppets]

Fedora won't do any better, Fedora is a pile o' shiat.

[.sentinel]

masterofpuppets can you help me or guide me to a gentoo guide.

[masterofpuppets]

ygpm.

[franki-evil.tk]

What is the best linux distro for someone who is a noob when it comes to linux but like customization. I also have a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse set plus a dlink wireless adapter DWL-G122

wow use linspire!! its the best linux disto ever
it will make you leet!!

[franki-evil.tk]

What is the best linux distro for someone who is a noob when it comes to linux but like customization. I also have a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse set plus a dlink wireless adapter DWL-G122

microsoft are s**t
dlink are good but 3com ftw

[nn_step]

for the absolute noob the only easy answer is PCBSD..
I use it only to develope PBIs to help the project
FreeBSD the rest of the time...

[Ugly n Grey]

I agree, BSD is a lot nicer and much better built than Linux...though I think Gentoo ends making a better Home Theater PC it just takes a lot of know how to wring what you need out of the distro...

[nn_step]

but bsd is superior when it comes to system resource usage..
and I think that would make a better media center plus the fact that BSD's TV card codec supports more types than Gentoo's

[KoHaN69]

gentoo is too hard for beginningers

try mandrake

[masterofpuppets]

Mandrake sucks ass. Gentoo is easy if you RTFM.

[uOpt]

My take is that FreeBSD is the best if you want a system that you can understand and control fully and which can be a lot less messy. It is my choice for systems that I do real work on. Also, they tend not to change third-party package when integrating. The least-surprises operating system.

Fedora is very aggressive with new software and they change quite a bit of software around before integrating. Last I looked they had 99 patches applied to Linus' kernel, and all the KDE defaults are messed up. Unfortunately, Fedoras install program, which is also used for upgrading the system as a whole from release to release is an unreliable and sensitive piece of junk. And they updates (the small ones) are more often than not fatfingered with broken dependencies. Their "up2date" update agent should be renamed "stayUPlate".

The Debian derivates like Ubuntu have more robust install and upgrade procedures and don't mess up too much software. They tend to have older packages.

My personal way of handling this is that FreeBSD is always on "critical" systems. Once I have FreeBSD around I like Fedora for "progress", to try new things. If it doesn't install or update then too bad because the important stuff is on FreeBSD. This duo is pretty much perfect.

If I was forced to choose just one operating system for all my desktops and notebooks and would need a Linux I would choose a Debian variant, probably Ubuntu.

[Xenom0rph]

And what do u guyz think about Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE) ?

[mikenam]

pclinuxos? Im new to linux too. just started experimenting. the only one ive used so far is pclinuxos. So far i like it.

[winterburnd]

How about SuSE? Its a decent distro for the beginner.

[Ugly n Grey]

RTFM is great when the manual is great... Gen's manual sucks ass...it's a good piece of software (I use it), not arguing but it's no good for noobs.... SuSE is easy for the first timer, so are a few others.

[JaCk0]

Vidalinux OS, based on GNU/Gentoo Linux.

[mrapples]

Mandrake sucks ass. Gentoo is easy if you RTFM.ah, such true words

and to grey, i have to disagree, i think the gentoo docs are incredibly well-written


anyone can start with gentoo, itll take a little more work, but you will learn some stuff that you will probably have to learn eventually anyway

if you are not up for that, ubuntu does pretty well as a starter distro, and the new release should be great

[mikenam]

ah, such true words

and to grey, i have to disagree, i think the gentoo docs are incredibly well-written


anyone can start with gentoo, itll take a little more work, but you will learn some stuff that you will probably have to learn eventually anyway

if you are not up for that, ubuntu does pretty well as a starter distro, and the new release should be great


changes my mind about gentoo. I might give gentoo a try.

[Murmlos]

Whats really the difference between PCBSD and frebsd. I know that pcbsd is based on freebsd. I also know that the installation of pcbsd is way simpler ( just a windows like install, click next a couple of times) freebsd has that console like interface, with fdisk and all that flags for bootable discs etc. PCBSD has a nice starting logo... But other thatn that, are the systems idendtical? Or well close enough so that i would never know any difference?

It was like 2 months ago i tried PCBSD.. and it only took me one try to get everything basic working.. On another note it only took me one try to change.. something in xoorg.conf (the graphics /screen config file?) to really :banana::banana::banana::banana: my X-window up :) Ah well.. Whenever i get some spare time again im gonna give it another try :)

[mrapples]

it uses freebsd as a base, so yes it is pretty much just an easy to set up, out of the box freebsd

[del_fuego]

I am a full linux newb but decided on trying out Gentoo none the less. I followed this guide here - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345229.html

I must admit that alot of the stuff i was doing to install gentoo was a little over my head, but having said that i was met with no unsolvable suprises or anything 'scary' like that. What the guide said was going to happen was exactly what did happen. The install does take quite a while depending on the level of optimization you choose (about 8 hrs or so for me with an fx55), but its more of an incite into the way linux/gentoo works than popping in a cd and pressing enter.

I recommend Gentoo as the distro to try if you're feeling a little adventurous. The Gentoo forums are a wealth of info and im yet to run into any little 'niggles' that havent been solved with a quick visit, and there seems to be about every kind of software you could imagine to make that windows transition as smooth as can be via a nifty program called Portage. If you want to know what Portage is i suggest you get installing!

Cheers, dEl. :toast:

[[XC] moddolicous]

What linux distro can run with 200mhz, 24mb ram, and a 3gb hard drive?

[mrapples]

What linux distro can run with 200mhz, 24mb ram, and a 3gb hard drive?pretty much any one you want, requirements can be extremely small
do you need a gui with it?

@del, sounds like a well executed first install, often people just give up when they hit a bump in the process, but you are right, if you can search the forums and read the docs, you will be fine

[nn_step]

damn small linux, Berry, Freesbie, or any liveCD...

[uOpt]

What linux distro can run with 200mhz, 24mb ram, and a 3gb hard drive?

Probably better off with a BSD which has a less bloated C library and a two-stage VM system (newer Linux kernels have a 3-stage system, and some distributions have patches with back pointers in the page tables).

I have a Toshiba laptop Pentium-133 or somesuch with 24 MB RAM. Runs FreeBSD-current.

[nn_step]

no matter what you have, you can run it off NetBSD.. Even your Toaster.l..

[JaCk0]

Gentoo linux rlz