[FRIAM] Distro, distro, .. which is best!

[Owen Densmore]

OK, Doug has brought up a point I've wondered about.

Friamers .. another question .. well three actually .. for you all:
   - Which Linux desktop distros have you used?
   - Which distro do/did you like best?
   - What hardware did you run it on?

Years ago at Sun I was a RedHat + Gnome user .. indeed in 2000-2002,  
it, on the Thinkpad hardware, had taken over SunLabs.  We even put it  
in our JavaCar and found it worked with most of the weird drivers we  
needed.

It was a bit hard to get going on laptops, however.  Audio was quite  
difficult, requiring rebuilding the kernel with new drivers, and  
getting the Sleep function to work correctly was tough.  But all in  
all, RedHat + Gnome + Thinkpad was quite successful.  Gnome was even  
available on Solaris, so the interoperability was great between the  
Sun servers and the laptops.

So anyone else out there taken on the Linux desktop challenge?

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Douglas Roberts" <doug at parrot-farm.net>
> Date: October 20, 2006 6:26:33 AM MDT
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"  
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Leopard vs. Vista
> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group  
> <friam at redfish.com>
>
> Mandriva 2007 'la Ora' with KDE 3.5.4 (and a slew of whatever other  
> packages you prefer)..
> http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007
>
> On 10/20/06, fromm <fromm at vs.uni-kassel.de> wrote:
> What do you think is more impressive,
> advanced and useful, the new..
>
> ..Mac OS X Leopard with "Time Machine",
> "Spotlight" and "Ruby on Rails"..
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html
>
> ..or the new Windows Vista
> with Aero, WPF and WCF ?
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
>
> -J.
>
>
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