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itching for some new Linux
Siplus:
i'd say redhat9, but that's cause it's what i use. i don't know if you want to count my very biased vote cause i've never really used mandrake (i tried 8.2, but you can't use that to compare rh and md when ur using the newest releases)
Doctor V:
Psyjax, ignore these porple and take my advice. :D I have been using Red Hat 8.0 almost since its release. Over the months I've fucked it up by adding so many apps built for other versions of redhat or other distros, along with numerous alpha and beta packages, that it could be mistaken for Windows ME with a facelift! After accepting the fact that my redhat was lost I decided to try somthing new. I downloaded 4 distros to try so I could make a dual boot with the two I liked best. I just had to check out Evil Entity just to see what its like and let me tell you: it ROCKS!
Its fast, lightweight, stable, and very interesting. If you're looking for somthing fun, new, interesting, and different from other the standard distros, nothing will beat Evil Entity. Its a few rungs up from Red Hat in the challenge department, but much easier to install and use than Slackware, Debian or Gentoo (which I'm still fighting with). Installation takes just over a half hour. The desktop is Enlightenment which is quite different from KDE or Gnome and might take a bit of getting used to; but looks really cool esp. if you're into gothic. I wasn't expecting it to function very well, but I was wrong. Actually it is very stable and, so far at least, seems to run much more efficiently than Red Hat ever did.
Give it a try at least, version 0.25 is out, and be sure to jot down you monitors specs before installing.
Good Luck and Have Fun
;) V ;)
edit: I really am a bad speller.
[ May 22, 2003: Message edited by: Doctor V ]
Pantso:
Of all the newest distros I've tried so far, I'm really fond of RH 8.0 as well as Mandrake 9.0. I haven't tried RH 9.0 or Mandrake 9.1 just yet, but if I had to choose between these two, I'd take RH.
I also have to say that SuSE was my distro of choice, until versions 8.0 and 8.1, which were really disappointing. However, I've read many positive reviews about 8.2.
As for Slack, I still haven't given it a try, but I'll take the others' word for it that it rocks.
Anyway, it's a tough choice psyjax, but my final suggestion would be RH 9.0. ;)
psyjax:
Hmmm... this evil entety intrigues me :D
What kind of Package Management does it use? And how can I be sure that most linux apps will work on it without annoying compile times and gcc errors?
I do want to use this as a dev. platform to get used to programming on X86. I am familiar with KDevelop wich I realy enjoyed for teh brief time I used it... can you install KDE easely on EvilE? Or will I be stuck programming with emacs :D
hhehe.... well ya see what I mean.
Anyway, the linux seems quirky, speedy, and kinda fun. What do you know about the answers to my questions?
KernelPanic:
It is slackware based, so it uses tgz slackpacks. (EvilEntity)
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