[Techtalk] What distro?

Kathryn Marks kathryn.linux at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 12:56:56 UTC 2010


Thanks everyone!  Keep the suggestions coming (if there are any more).

I think I'm just going to download a bunch and see what will run.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Kathryn Marks <kathryn.linux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi ladies (and gents)
> >
> > After a year and a half of refusing to fight with hardware
> incompatibility
> > and Fedora (I've stuck with Fedora 10), I've decided to jump ship.
> >
> > I have a bit of experience with Ubuntu.  I'm not crazy about the whole
> sudo
> > thing and I like yum over apt-get.  So what to try now?  Distros with
> > LiveCDs preferred.  KDE definitely preferred.
>
> A friend of mine really likes Arch Linux. It's somewhere in between
> Debian and Gentoo, from what I understand. Seems like fun to play
> around with, if you're trying out new distros anyway. No Live CD I
> think, but there's this:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Building_a_Live_CD
>
> cheers,
> Wim
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~Kathryn


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