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:
- Linux on laptops - learn which distros are best supported on notebooks
- Linux on older hardware - see which distros are a better choice for the older (but still functioning) machines
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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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 ?
Ah, yes, for who doesn`t know, Nexenta is an Ubuntu distro with Solaris kernel !
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
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.
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!
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..
OpenSolaris codenamed Project Indiana LiveCD looks promising.