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Re: Linux Mandriva [message #18399 is a reply to message #18361]

Fri, 26 September 2008 00:33

dolik.rce
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Czech Republic

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Hi everybody,
I really like this discussion, not only because I'm happy linux user, but also because I'm thinking about changing my distro right now... Let me tell you about my experiences Wink

At first I've tried SuSE and Mandriva, but those didn't really get my attention. I stayed on windows but after some time (few years Smile

) I installed Xubuntu - and it was like charm: Everything faster, easier, configurable... I've started learning rapidly. I tried several other distros,to name three most "useful" for my understanding linux it was: LFS (which gave me a lot of knowledge, but also a lot of work to get a working system Smile

), gentoo (which was not so hard, but I couldn't configure X properly, so it was near to useless) or puppy (which was very fast and lightweight, but had not enough support for my taste) and many others. Today I'm still on my Xubuntu, highly tweaked, mainly because I'm used to it.
But I think about a change. I summarized my wishes and this is what I got:
It definetly must have a good package system.
It shouldn't use any bloated desktop (my hardware is rather old).
It should have a good community support and/or follow the usual ways of doing things, so I can apply hints and howtos from other distros.
I'm not sure et what to choose, but I guess it'll be something debian based, with Enlightenment as desktop. Or maybe gentoo, this time it may work Smile

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