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 Posted: Mon, 01 May 2006 00:06:33 Post Subject: |
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Gentoo Linux >>> www.gentoo.org
Highly configurable. Completely built from source for your hardware (once you set your make.conf) so it's fast. And it has the best forum community to seek help in. The documentation is not lacking, either. Tons of info in the (unofficial) [url=www.gentoo-wiki.org]wiki[/url] or (official) forums.
It's abit more complicated at first, but once you use it a while and understand what's going on, it's easier than the RPM-based distros (Fedora, CentOS, Redhat, Mandrivia, etc.).
But if you do want to start off with a simple, quick install, few instructions distro - Fedora Core 5 (www.fedora.redhat.com)is a good place to start. It lacks in optimized packages (Gentoo is really one of the few with that), but it's pretty straight-forward from install and on. The only thing that is really disapointing about Redhat-based distros (Fedora, CentOS) is the missing MPEG support. You have to download the RPMs from 3rd party repositories which sometime cause dependency problems. It's a love-hate relationship with Fedora, atleast from my experiences. It works very well, but getting a simple mpeg movie to play was hell.
If you really want a distro that very well but needs some extra patience to get installed and configured how you want it, go Gentoo. You learn alot on the way, too (if you go the Minimal CD route like everyone had to prior to 2006.0, not the LiveCD with the GUI). If you want something that you can just put some CDs in and within an hour have a complete working desktop, go Fedora Core.
| Quote: | | Somewhere I read Linux being a little unstable with OC'd systems. |
Lies. Linux is as stable on an OC'ed system as Windows (relatively........meaning Linux more stable anyway, but you already knew that....hence you wanting to make the switch  ). |
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