What distro are you trying right now? - Page 152

mmix · #**2266** 3rd December 2011, 04:55 AM

F16 XFCE on 2nd pc.

merelyjim · #**2267** 31st December 2011, 07:15 PM

Um... this one actually.

Taking Fedora16_Xfce for a spin on my netbook.

I've been using Debian-based distro's for the past few years and thought I'd confuse myself by running commands that aren't quite as compatable from one system to another... Like [yum] to [apt-get].

GoinEasy9 · #**2268** 31st December 2011, 10:44 PM

I came here after KDE 4.0 hit Debian Sid, and needed a Gnome based distro. Now that KDE 4.7.2 is available, I'm trying Sid again. The new "siduction" distro makes install very quick and easy.

kuppuswamy · #**2269** 1st January 2012, 03:15 AM

Using Fedora 16 32bit GNOME 3
RAM : 2 GB
PROCESSOR : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
GRAPICS : GeForce 6150/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
HARD DISK : 60 GB PARTITION

At present I am using FEDORA 16 GNOME 3. I am trying linux distribution for neary four years and my successful installation was mandriva, from there I learnt to use other distro like slackware, vectorlinux, debian, ubuntu, arch, zenwalk, scientific, centos to gain knowledge about them. Though when you try for the first time all the distros pose some problem but with perseverence to find solution to all the problem through searching in the respective forums and googling results in equally working distro of your choice. So I think there is no much differnece in the availability of application and working of various linux distributions.

Then the choice of your linux distro will be decided by your taste and the comfortability you find in using the distro.

Though I tried many linux distros I like fedora and I am comfortable using it ( though a little bit of effort is reqired from ourside for that ). Though there are more comments about the switch over to GNOME 3, I find no difficulty in using GNOME 3, it requires little practise that's all.
My desktop with FEDORA 16 GNOME 3 is fully localised in my native language TAMIL with scim I can use tamil typewriter and draft letters in tamil using fedora.

So, I am of the opinion that it is easy to use various applications in linux ( FEDORA ) than windows and LINUX will be "FUTURE OS OF THE MASSES".

rpstitz · #**2270** 3rd January 2012, 03:32 PM

LinuxMint 10 Julia 32-bit running Gnome2 at the moment, but downloading Fedora 16 desktop CD.

***Dan*** · #**2271** 3rd January 2012, 03:35 PM

'Bout time you wandered back in. <..

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#**2272** 5th January 2012, 05:42 AM

looks like i might try Mint13 when its released since from Mint11 works the best on my Motherboard reading from reviews

if anyone knows anyone with Fedora linux on there pc that has the same Mobo as this PM me

CrimsonKing · #**2273** 5th January 2012, 06:12 AM

Primarily using (besides Windows): Fedora 16.

Why: Broke my Debian (Mint-flavoured) a bit, thought I could give this one a try to break too.

(No, seriously, a friend told me to give it a chance.)

Also having machines with Debian Stable (server, best server distro IMO), Mint Debian Edition (great look&feel) and a VM with openSUSE (for checking how it has evolved since 1998...)

spacin · #**2274** 5th January 2012, 07:03 AM

F16 and slackware 13.37

F16 gnome on one box. Kde on my i3 laptop

Slack is on my main box and server pretty much cuz I have so much time invested getting it to work I don't want to change it to f16 and I might change my server for a few reasons. As where I could never get it to work as the router.

dragonbite · #**2275** 11th January 2012, 04:04 AM

wow.. what a difference supported hardware makes.

Right now I am trying Ubuntu on an old (but supported) IBM Thinkpad T42 (Pent. M @ 1.8 GHz, 1 GB ram, ATI video) but in addition to Unity I have Gnome-shell installed. I am hoping to spend some time going back-and-forth between the two of them and get a feel for which one I prefer (and of course, I have KDE as a fallback).

At first I was preferring Unity, but tonight was the first time I booted into Gnome-shell after editing with Gnome-tweaks and NOW I see the changes I made!

What really got me was when I was opening a program and see some of my contacts information pop up! So I logged into Empathy and tried again and saw the person's status change. Kinda cool!

Plus the extended battery giving me about 6 hours of life doesn't hurt much either

LinuxNerd · #**2276** 15th January 2012, 06:57 PM

The main 5 I wanna try are Fedora 16 Gnome, Crunchbang 10, Scientific 6, Ubuntu 11.10, and Lubuntu 11.10.

The main UNIX OSes I wanna give a shot are PC-BSD, OpenIndiana, and MINIX.

ericthered · #**2277** 15th January 2012, 07:00 PM

I'm splitting my time between F16+xfce and Debian stable+icewm. Though I prefer Fedora.

In the past I've tried countless, mostly Ubuntu, openSUSE, #!, antiX, Puppy, and Bodhi.

I want to try Arch sometime.

LinuxNerd · #**2278** 15th January 2012, 07:14 PM

Coolios, Fedora's really good.

CrimsonKing · #**2279** 15th January 2012, 07:51 PM

Actually, the difference between distributions is not really deep these days.

dragonbite · #**2280** 16th January 2012, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrimsonKing

Actually, the difference between distributions is not really deep these days.

Once you get past the surface differences, it seems there is less which is really different between distributions.

That's probably why I usually go between Ubuntu and Fedora; they are different enough to be worht checking out but are, or were, similar enough that I didn't lose too mcuh ground going between them. For wheatever reason I find it a bigger stretch to go to openSUSE, but that's just me.