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Re: Question for Mike Carter Re: Anyone else going to switch to Fedora?
de Brian 04/14/2006 12:20
Mark Carter wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
>> Mike, What would be the better solution for a newbie into Linux for
>> older PIII laptop? I have Looked at Kabubtu and Puppy both look
>> interesting. What are the pro and cons? Any direction you could point
>> me towards would be helpfull.
>>
>> Thx.
>> Brian Carter
>
>
> I'm assuming that by Mike you mean Mark, and by Kabubtu you mean Ubuntu.
>
> I tried Puppy once, and it was fast. However, I couldn't get it to
> install on my system. It seems that they're working on it - but this
> feature didn't exist the last time I tried it. I'm not particularly keen
> on Live CDs, because ultimately there doesn't seem much point to them
> (OK, maybe possibly perhaps they're useful as emergency recovery tools,
> but I wouldn't want one as my main distro).
>
> Puppy is only 60M in size, so if you want to give it a go and find out
> you don't like it, at least it didn't take too long to download. My
> thoughts on the visual appeal of Puppy is that it is very icky looking -
> a sick Puppy, if you will. Their website seems to have a style to match.
> IIRC, their Window Manager is built on FVWM, which many people love. But
> I'm not one of them.
>
> Puppy does have the advantage that it's quite speedy. However, I expect
> that you'll eventually end up wanting more softw2are than is provided on
> the CD.
>
> Which brings us onto Ubuntu. Ubuntu is an excellent distro. Other people
> on this board have been evangelising MEPIS. I tried SimplyMEPIS version
> 3.3.1-1 recently. It installed OK. I tried to install extra development
> packages, but came across installation conflicts. For this reason, I
> think Ubuntu is better.
>
> Upsides of Ubuntu are that there are a tonne of packages available for
> it, and hardware detection is good. Disadvantages of it are that it's
> not especially fast, I hadn't quite sussed out how to get a Samba server
> working on it (although I'm ready to give it another shot, and have an
> idea what I was doing wrong), and I don't like that whole sudo business.
>
> I think Ubuntu is the best distro out there (with Slackware second). If
> you're worried about the speed of your laptop, then you may want to
> consider Xubuntu:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu
> which is Ubuntu but uses the XFCE windows manager, a less bloated
> manager than Gnome.
>
> Dapper Drake is on the horizon (due out end of June, I believe), at
> which time I'll probably download Kubuntu and give it a spin.
>
> Hope that helps.
Sorry about that Mark. Long day at the office.
Thankyou for information. I'll Take a look at both Xuuntu and Slackware
as well.
Brian