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Hello every one

Ok can you guys recommend a linux (hey why does f**king word xp say linux is a spelling error. Wait I remember its made by Microsoft) distro which would be best suited for.

* Programming (Java, C, Sql)

* Desktop Uses

* Hacking (just joking :p)

Thank You

:)

Here is what the distro will run on :-

Athlon 1.4 ghz overclocked to 1.6 ghz

Geforce 3

256 meg of DDR pc2100

40 Gig HD (its 40 gig of windows free space :evil: )

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thanks for the replay ppl keep them coming

also i think ill give mandrake a miss its to softcore for me hahaha :evil:

what about free BSD (i know its unix but any one use it ? what do u think)

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A major diff is the kernel itself. You'll wanna custom that anyways. I'd recommend mandrake if you don't know much about linux or programming, and slackware, gentoo, suse if you are smarter (and more patient). The last three are a lot better.

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Try Debian, now at 3.0, and still one of the best distro's to manage out there. Been running Debian for literally years, never fails me!

apt just rocks :)

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I tried variouse Linux distros when I tried it, redhat 6.2 Mandrake 7.1, WInlinux(the worst), and of them I thought Mandrake was the easiest to install, red hat didn't recognize my promise IDE controller (so I couldn't use it) and Winlinux is just bad, so Mandrake got my vote. Will install it again when my other HD comes in.

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Gentoo if you want speed, bleeding edge software, and features. Debian if you want slow and stable. Mandrake, redhat, and friends if you want a bunch of third party crap all over (or a clean installer).

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Originally posted by Vlad

Gentoo if you want speed, bleeding edge software, and features. Debian if you want slow and stable. Mandrake, redhat, and friends if you want a bunch of third party crap all over (or a clean installer).

Yeah, that sounds about right :)

Mandrake is alot easier to install and configure hardware then some other distros out there :)

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I'm using Storm Linux (Debian 2.2) which unfortunately does not support any nVidia cards. I would reccomend using Debian 2.2 or 3.0r0, its the most standard, secure, and common distro people use, however, Slackware is also as good. If you need a fancy GUI and that stuff the go with SuSE, I was wowed by how much they progressed with all the stuff.

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I've had more trouble with Mandrake and Redhat than I've had with Gentoo. They try to do too much for you and never seem to get it right ;)

Gentoo isnt as hard as some people make it out to be. But you MUST be willing to read documentation. You do nearly everything manually with a text editor, but at least you learn everything you need to know as well as actually know what you're telling your system. ;) Take a look, i wouldn't use anything else. :)

Gentoo

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yeah i think ill go with gentoo looks like a good distro which is well rounded :).

but one more thing i remember there was a OS that fits on a floopy disk i forgot what it was called can any one help us out and find the link to there site if there is any. (i tryed a search at google and nothing came up so plz some one must know what the OS is :))

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Originally posted by mAcOdIn

old dos will fit on a floppy, as with slackware I believe

slackware has a version for zip discs, i tried using it but my system wouldnt boot it for some odd reason, but i do recomend regular slackware, it may be a bit difficult to install, but once its in, its stable and pretty quick, good luck mate.

TS

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Originally posted by zivan56

I'm using Storm Linux (Debian 2.2) which unfortunately does not support any nVidia cards. I would reccomend using Debian 2.2 or 3.0r0, its the most standard, secure, and common distro people use, however, Slackware is also as good. If you need a fancy GUI and that stuff the go with SuSE, I was wowed by how much they progressed with all the stuff.

Storm Linux was really good. Perhaps one of the few decent graphical debian distros around at the time. Sad that Stormix Technologies closed up shop. I really liked their products. Their servers they produced looked amazing. As for nVidia cards, i used to run Storm on a TNT2 M64 Graphics card. It recognized it as a Vanta, but ah who cares;)

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Originally posted by Hari

found it guys www.qnx.com :p

I hope you are really joking. QNX is meant for real time embedded hardware and application development. It is really unstable otherwise for regular use. Its nice for what it is but its not a desktop environment.

Use Linux. I'd recommend Slackware, Mandrake and Debian as the best. For development, I'd recommend any of the 3 above as well as desktop use. Just stray away from any beta releases of GCC, they will break your programs. You should note that Debian 3.0 is official but the ISO's are official yet. They should be out soon.

If you want to become a serious hacker, than you wouldn't trust any distributions and you would make your own then you would hack. Otherwise, who knows what's been planted in the OS to snoop on you. Right?

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DrunkenMaster

i was just looking for qnx becuz its pretty cool how they got a os on a floopy disk man hahhaa but no way would i ever use it also i was joking about hacking man hahaha.:p

i might wait for next round of Distro updates just to see what new stuff they have.

:evil: :evil:

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I knew you were joking about the hacking....which is why I added the sarcasm at the end.

Most of the desktop environments out right now are pretty good. If you want to drop a bit of cash and get a really nice X server, conisder http://www.xigraphics.com/, they have demos of the accelerated servers. They include drivers for the newest cards, the X server they install is much smaller = much faster. And if you tons of money you can get the fully OpenGL compliant version which kicks Mesa. They have demos available to download which work for 25 minutes at a time.

I think this is a much better way to go than depending on XFree86 to develop a smaller, better and faster X in the interim. Waiting for the next dist. releases will probably take about 3-4 months, I'm guessing.

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