* Built for newer computers
* Easy to use
* Installed with a graphical installer
* Only installed with a base system
* One that detects your hardware for you
* Packed with many choices for an application
* Full of the latest and greatest features that may take up processing power
* Binary package based
* Free from dependancy hell
* Macintosh like in GUI Nature
here's how the distributions in the database match up to your choices:
Distro name Match %
Ubuntu 7/11: 63%
Mandriva 8/11: 72%
SuSe 8/11: 72%
Fedora 9/11: 81%
MEPIS 7/11: 63%
Knoppix 8/11: 72%
Debian 8/11: 72%
Damn Small 6/11: 54%
Gentoo 6/11: 54%
Slackware 5/11: 45%
Vector 5/11: 45%
Kanotix 8/11: 72%
Arch 6/11: 54%
Ark 8/11: 72%
LFS 4/11: 36%
Beatrix 7/11: 63%
EvilEntity 3/11: 27%
Based on these results we recommend you to try(if you haven't tried it yet):
Fedora
Oh yeah, I saw that some time ago. I think it was confused by my answers, as I wanted the UNIX CLI badly, but didn't mind not having to configure the system by hand. They don't seem to have accounted for my type
Look at the questions:
I would like my distro to be:
Cutting edge and full of features
Lightweight and fast
Neither: I want it to be stable. Lightweight is not necessarily stable at all; look at SuSE, which for all its great qualities can hardly be called lightweight...
Or look at:
I want my distro to be:
Easy
Technical, so I can learn alot
Either or
It's not black and white. I want a UNIX environment since that's to me the most efficient way of operating a computer. However, I'd be annoyed if I had to touch xorg.conf again.
Your ideal distro is:
Built for older computers
Installed with everything
One that detects your hardware for you
Packed with many choices for an application
Full of the latest and greatest features that may take up processing power
Binary package based
Free from dependancy hell
Windows/Macintosh like in GUI Nature
here's how the distributions in the database match up to your choices:
Based on these results we recommend you to try(if you haven't tried it yet):
Fedora
This thing seems to feel that RPM-based distros don't have dependancy checking. It also feels that Fedora is much better on older computers than SUSE.
But I don't like GNOME.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
It's a bit silly that's what it is. Personally, I'm happy enough with SUSE that I don't think I'll ever switch distros again. Eventually the technical superiority of FC5 will be incorporated into a SUSE release too, that's the beauty of OSS.
Maybe if Fedora had a liveCD, I'd try it out. But, on this (older) computer, I'm sticking to SUSE. It might be tougher when I get a newer laptop, but we'll see.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
Of course, the other question is - who defines what is an older computer? Mine is a 1.1 GHz Celeron Coppermine with 256 MB RAM. That's about 4 or so years old, and it was lowend back in the day.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
Mine is 700 MHz with 256 MB RAM. (The Dell.) It runs SuSE just fine and dandy, with 45-second boot times. So that's a bad argument. True I don't use the package manager much, but SuSE is perfect for it.
Well, YAST does tend to give me a lot of problems. But a properly configured apt4rpm is almost as good as a regular debian-based apt.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
YAST package manager, to be specific. Takes a really long time to startup, and tends to refresh unreliably/not at all. APT gave me some problems with GPG keys, but since I found out how to disable checking and removed a bad repository from my sources.list, things have been quite smooth.
Except for a weird conflict between the latest digikam and the latest koffice-illustration. But that's a problem with the RPMs, not apt.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
Hum, I don't usually have trouble with YaST. Yes, it takes a long time to start and finish, but then again, it's doing a lot of grunt-work that other package managers often omit, and which is part of SuSE's polish.
Not that I wouldn't mind not refreshing all repos each time. They should allow that in some menu hidden to the casual newbie user.
Yeah, the SUSE polish is evident even in the "unsupported" apt-get. Automatically runs SUSEconfig, and intelligently as well - it runs the specific modules as needed, and then does one final catch-all at the end.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
