Downloading FC5
Jon Bauer has done his good deed for the week and pursuaded me to download FC5 and give Linux a try… I agreed to the first part and am in the process of downloading the 3.2gig iso.
I’ve looked at Ubuntu, but the fact that they are so Gnome heavy sorta scares me. So since Jon has promised to give me support, and I do have a FC server, I’ll go with that.
And I’ll post if I do get around to installing and playing with this… You never know, I might become a linux geek after all 
July 31st, 2006 at 1:45 pm
You should check out Mepis. They have a cool live CD as well. I’ve been using it exclusively on my desktop for a year now.
Great stuff, great distro, great forum/support!!
http://www.mepis.org
July 31st, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Yeh, that’s what everyone says about their own personal favorite… what I’m looking for is:
1. Continued Support
2. Good KDE Support
3. Easy to compile stuff from scratch
I don’t want to use Ubuntu because they are so Gnome heavy (I know there is Kubuntu, but that is a spin off without the stable release cycle). I could go with Debian (I already have a deb server and I’m very happy with it) but for a desktop OS I need more bells and whistles, I also don’t want to have to configure my wifi by hand.
I know 2 people who use FC (1 commercially supporting it), and I know I can ask them for support so it makes the choice a lot easier.
Maybe you can show me around your system when I come over
July 31st, 2006 at 10:50 pm
It wasn’t always like that, but Kubuntu does have a stable release cycle now. In fact, it has the same release cycle as Ubuntu itself. The latest incarnation, Kubuntu 6.06 a.k.a Dapper Drake, has the same three trailing letters as its mother distribution: LTS - which stands for “Long Time Support”. In Ubuntu/Kubuntu terms, this means three years of guaranteed updates.
The most complicated (read: *tons* of dependencies) thing I had to compile by hand was GnuCash, which went surprisingly well, considering the number of libs it needs (these guys are f… mental!).
I’ve tried older releases of SuSE, RedHat and Mandrake before - but since I got introduced to distributions with package management systems that auto-resolve dependencies (read: Portage, APT), I’m hooked - can’t imagine how anyone could ever have lived without it (read: RPM)
July 31st, 2006 at 11:01 pm
heh, well I remember installing gnucash on slackware with gnome 1.x it was simpler before gnome2… now I use grisbi.
So RPM doesn’t do automatic dependancy resolution? There was a reason why I didn’t like rpms but I just wasn’t sure what it was
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