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Joined: Jun 23, 2008
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Posted Jun 23, 2008 at 3:28:05 PM
Subject: What Distro to use

Well i have been looking around and kinda confusted.. not sure what to pick..

iam a total newbie to linux. i have installed and looks at fedora and debian before but thats all....

what i need help with is picking the right one. well i have made a litle list to give alitle help on what i need..

list:

* Easy to setup as a file server with multiple hard drives
* Work with windows pcs in a network
* Easy to install a webserver on or have it alrady
* Stable

the pc thats gona run this is a almost new

2GB ram and a am2 amd cpu 2Ghz..

any help is very thankfully
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chart3399
Joined Jun 17, 2008
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Posted: Jun 23, 2008 9:20:47 PM
Subject: What Distro to use

I hate to say it but in the end most of them are pretty similar and can all accomplish what you are looking for. The big hitters right now are:

openSUSE
Fedora
Ubuntu
PCLinuxOS

I would say it is all trial and error at first. Test drive a few and see one you like. I have been using openSUSE for a few weeks now (was previously running other desktops) and have been happy with it.

..corey
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FInnA
Joined Jun 23, 2008
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Posted: Jun 23, 2008 10:50:47 PM
Subject: What Distro to use

okay... just one where installing new applications isnt hard.. know there are some u need to know where files need to go etc. dont want that advanced.. if u can see what i meen
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proopnarine

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Posted: Jun 24, 2008 5:36:01 AM
Subject: What Distro to use

Almost all the distros. have very easy to use software repositories. Yum and apt, on Fedora/Red Hat and Ubuntu (an relatives) are my favourites. Literally for thousands of software packages, installation can be as easy as
yum install <package name>
or
apt-get install <package name>

Take the red pill www.calacademy.org/blogs
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