Linux: What would you choose?
Alright, I’m wondering what distro people out there prefer. I know among many Ubuntu is quite popular, but I’m curious what other distros strike a fancy with you and why.
I’m trying to decide what to install on my second partition and am currently undecided on what Linux distro it shall be. I need something that is easy to use, and preferably boots fast and comes with decent multimedia support built in. I know I can always strike out on my own to install the multimedia drives but frankly I’m a tad lazy :) and not all that great at working with Linux. Currently I’ve tried Ubuntu, openSUSE, freespire, and I have the latest version of Dreamlinux downloaded to check out. I also plan to check out Ubuntu Studio once it gets released (damn the screen shot looks nice).
Update: I’ve pulled up a link to Amazon’s UnSpun list. Currently it is Ubuntu (4304), Redhat (1913), and openSUSE (1000) for the top three.
Also, because I’m expecting very little input (alright no input) on this post I’m going to just go ahead and install Ubuntu 6.10, but I’m still open for input.
Update2: Anyone know how to get VitualBox to boot from a cd properly? I keep getting fatal error when it starts to try and boot the system.
Feb 6th 2007
if you want simple & fast, go with Dreamlinux. Its the ONLY linux resident on my desktop &laptop, and I normally think nothing of blowing away installs & trying something new. I have pretty much settled down on Dream, because it is so light on resources. I even have a VM running WindowsXP, which boots only about 10% slower than windows native on same hardware.
ciao
K
Feb 6th 2007
Thanks for the reply. It is good to know DreamLinux is light on resources. I probably won’t be installing it anytime soon on my main pc, but I do have a few older ones I’ll try it on (and VM of course). Currently I’ve got my computer set up running Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl 0.2.0 and a few other additions. VM is one of the things I have yet to get up and running.
Thanks again for the input. :)