Choose OS

Saturday, 13 August 2005, michuk

This is the central place for all of you hesitating which Linux distro or BSD flavor to pick. Fill out the distro chooser first, and then interactively compare the major GNU/Linux and BSD flavours to see what seems the best fit for you!

If you have a laptop or older hardware you should take a look at those articles as well:

The pain of choice
Pic 1. Lots of distros… which is the best for me?

Finally, if you just want to try Linux with minimal learning-curve, try one of the Live-CD distros, without damaging your Windows installation, straight from the CD!

Whatever you choose, stay with GNU/Linux! It’s really worth using, so give it a try!

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fold this thread Dorin  Monday, 19 March 2007 o godz. 1:25 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +3

You should write something about Solaris too. Something like Nexenta, wich it looks like a very interesting OS and a great idea.
Tell us, pros and cons of it and various comparisons. It could be a good idea and at least for me OpenSolaris looks very interesting. So why not talk abit about it ?

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fold this thread Dorin  Monday, 19 March 2007 o godz. 1:28 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

Ah, yes, for who doesn`t know, Nexenta is an Ubuntu distro with Solaris kernel !

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fold this thread Elfed Dowler-Jones  Tuesday, 20 March 2007 o godz. 2:27 am #  Add karma Subtract karma  +2

I am new to Linux and at the moment my favorite combination is Edgy 6.1 with KDE 3.5. Could you please let me know when e17 is in the same stage of completion as KDE. I have seen a couple of pictures and comments on http://www.modfree.org and it would be nice to give it a try.

Any advice would be very welcome. Many thanks!

ed-j

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fold this thread Curt  Tuesday, 24 April 2007 o godz. 3:50 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

You seem to have an extensive set of Linux reviews, yet there is one glaring ommission… PCLinuxOS. The latest version (english only) being 2007 test release 3, soon to be test release 4 (possibly later today), quickly followed by 2007 final. The test release 3 is an amazingly stable, user friendly distro. I’d give it 6 ****** on a scale of 1* to 5* Certainly worth checking out, it’s currently rated number 4 on distrowatch.

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fold this thread michuk  Tuesday, 24 April 2007 o godz. 4:08 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +1

You seem to have an extensive set of Linux reviews, yet there is one glaring ommission… PCLinuxOS.

Curt: Feel free to edit the comparison data for PCLinuxOS on our wiki. All is transmitted to the vortal as soon as it’s complete!

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fold this thread victorcarlos  Tuesday, 22 January 2008 o godz. 2:07 am #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

i prefer pclinuxos for me is the best and easy for beguiners i try to change windows an try ubuntu but really i like more pclinuxos i recomended defini..

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fold this thread VisiGoth  Friday, 28 March 2008 o godz. 4:17 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

OpenSolaris codenamed Project Indiana LiveCD looks promising.

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fold this thread jhon78  Wednesday, 30 September 2009 o godz. 11:00 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

Test

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fold this thread TryBuntu  Friday, 27 November 2009 o godz. 9:25 am #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

Try ubuntu.
Great for beginners and those who want to shift from windows to linux

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fold this thread linux software  Sunday, 10 January 2010 o godz. 3:29 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

linux software…

Your post on polishlinux.org ” Choose OS was interesting….

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fold this thread Mandriva  Sunday, 7 February 2010 o godz. 6:10 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +1

You guys should try Mandriva – brilliant up-to-date OS for 2010. Better than PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu.

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fold this thread cyring  Thursday, 21 October 2010 o godz. 11:40 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

Arch, the Rolling Release, forever

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fold this thread Sumitro  Saturday, 26 February 2011 o godz. 2:53 pm #  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

You could write an article on the various types of users and their suitable distros. Like
* Absolute newbies
* New born geeks
* Experienced geeks
* Gamers
* Musicians/Artists
* Average user
* Programmers
That would be really helpful :)

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