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New site? Maybe some day.
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I just need to dual boot my vista lappy with a linux flavor so that I can rsync RTTP with a drive at my house.
What flavor should I load?
Fedora? Ubuntu? straight debian? gentoo? slackware? Knoppix hd-boot? |
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if you just have a specific purpose and know the commands, just do slackware, go minimalistic. i'm not a unix guy so that's all the help you get from me. |
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Windows ME is the best choice. |
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thank you reimroc for your decisiveness. I'm glad you aren't picking the resturant for lunch. |
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dark: I have never used slackware. it's the only distrib I've never touched. |
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lol there are so many versions it makes choosing hard. |
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yeah, but they all have their pluses and minuses. I know RHE the best. but I like ubuntu or debian the best cause the apt manager rules.
Gentoo makes the smallest installs. Problem is that I don't really know it well or truly how to use emerge. emerge seems better than apt. |
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and everything kicks yum's ass. |
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gentoo is good if you're more of a power user. i personally like unbuntu or debian because they're the most user friendly. |
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I installed ubuntu for the usability on a PC that was going to be a mythTV box, what a year later turned out to be bad RAM crippled that system. It's now running win7 after I installed debian. I find debian to have more to it. Plus ubuntu was proven that it killed laptop hard drives faster that it should. |
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wow i didn't even know that little fact about unbuntu killing laptop drives. |
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dark: I have never used slackware. it's the only distrib I've never touched. |
i never have either, but i think you can tell it to give you a basic shell and a terminal, so if you're looking for a minimal OS for doing one thing, there ya go |
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so... you are coming up with a general comment on a linux flavor that you have never used. I should start doing sports announcing and commentary. |
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slackware is just like any other linux set up and it's just as huge when you install it as every other linux.
windows managers galore. |
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and if I wanted just something tiny, I would install DSL. it was 50MB last time I looked. |
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yeah DSL is retardo small...haven't tried it out yet though so not sure how it is with hardware support and features.
THE POWER OF THE COMMUNITYLOLOL
*makes fapping gesture*
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I was making knoppix distribs for my company in 2005 and looked at DSL so I could get our xGB of data on to a CD. |
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old news is old but Linux Mint 18 is pretty excellent these days. |
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I prefer Mate over Cinnamon but it seems like cinnamon is pretty popular. |
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I just use debian, centos, or ubuntu. |
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