[Tfug] OS`s

[Sam Hart]

I personally love Debian for everything. KDE, Gnome, all work great out of 
the box. I think K3B can do DVD-RW stuff too, but, not having a DVD-RW to 
try it out on (and disliking the whole graphical K3B thang) I can't 
promise it.

You can go the traditional (hard, IMHO, and even something I don't like 
;-) Deb install route, which is uber flexible. Or, you can start with 
something like the Progeny Anaconda installer if you want something that 
looks like Red Hat/Fedora.

Others have suggested Mandrake, and I'll admit with a good few 
alternative package sources (The PLF is your friend) you can get pretty 
much everything you'd ever want (even crap that you can't find on Debian 
due to the DFSG). Mandrake is great for new users, so, if you are new to 
Linux you may want to give it a try. Personally, I'd never use it in a 
million years, but I have friends who swear by it ;-) Also, for DVD-RW 
support right out of the box, it is hard to beat. I have a friend (who, if 
you ask kindly enough, I'll give you his email) who does all the 
Video-to-DVD conversions of the Physics Dept. colloqieums under Mandrake.

FreeBSD is actually pretty damned easy to install and upgrade. It can be 
installed with KDE and Gnome, and I think you can install K3B on it as 
well. It's a bit more of a trick to configure things like X, but it can be 
rockin' fast right out of the box. If you're not much of a Linux fan and 
prefer the BSD world, then I'd recommend FreeBSD.

Others have suggested Gentoo, and I'll admit I kinda like it. I had it on 
my laptop for a while and my laptop has never ran faster (the DVD playback 
was amazing). Slow upgrades and quirky installers pretty much put me off 
the distro tho (I mean, you can just install binary packages, but what's 
the point? If I just want binary packages I'll use Debian thank you very 
much ;-)

Of course, the end all be all in Linux distros is SUSE. So you really 
should give it a go ;-)

*(Kidding! I hate SUSE, twas a joke ;-)

* On 04-07-15, Roy Babin wrote:

> Do not want to start an OS war, just want recomendations as to a GOOD os 
> that will support KDE & Gnome, also have a workable DVD-rw burner 
> program. Please do not incluse SUSE, do not want to fight that again.
> Thank you.....Roy
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Sam Hart
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