Which open source OS?

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

Right, I've run FreeBSD for a few years now. I'm now switching to *nix as my desktop and it seems that if I'm going to change, now is the time.

I need something that'll do the ndiswrapper without trouble. I don't want debian, or freebsd, I'm tempted with something like red hat.

All I need it to do is fullfill every day stuff, run gnome or similar and maybe have the odd small scale server running on it too.

Start throwing suggestions!

Gaz

NSR Mick · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Karma :

Fedora.

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feef · Energiser Bunny Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Karma :

fedora is bleeding edge, beta-ish Redhat releases..

if you want production level 'nix without worrying about potential bugs, look a Ubuntu or Gentoo

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Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

What are the opinions like for solaris? It's what they use at my uni so would semi-make sense to use it at home.

Gaz

feef · Energiser Bunny Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Karma :

solaris isn't open source tho.

They did do a free version a while ago, but I don't think its still current, and was never easy to get your hands on in the first place.

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Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

I've always found Suse to be more than adequate as a stable and well supported *nix distro.
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FreshAL · Sir Crashalot Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Karma :

Ubuntu

Great community, well supported distro.

I'm fairly sure Soliaris is free now, but h/w support is not as good as Linux.

bazza · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Karma :

Another vote for Ubuntu. I use it as my desktop OS at home. Thumbs Up

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Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

I'll have to have a look at this Ubuntu, keep hearing good things about it. Only time I've used it was as a live CD when I was playing with OSX on the PC.

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

Ubuntu it is, thank you.

Gaz

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

Ok, ubuntu's all installed, seamlessly I might add. Got ndiswrapper going with my wireless NIC, perfectly.

Got gnome2 installed, no problem.

Couple of questions now, how can I partition off a chunk of the HDD for mp3s. And what's gonna happen if I just plug in my USB printer? Will it all be sunshine and light and everything will work?

Because this will be my desktop PC, and I have a very important piece of coursework due next monday, I can't risk not being able to print. So I can't swap over just yet.

I have nothing but good things to say about Ubuntu thus far. Other than it doesn't come with the kernel source on the CD, and it leaves large repositories unused in the apt-get thing. So huge amounts of software seems unavailable.

Gaz