[Ilugc] free an eggroll or a fried crab rangoon
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan)
- Date: Sun Jul 9 20:56:02 2006
Subhas wrote:
Hai linux geeks,
Geeks :O there are lotsa newbies and novices hanging around here, do not
pressume so. You are most welcome to join the community :)
This is Subash, and am a newbie to Linux (and ILUGC). It's been almost 8
years of Windows reign, and I've finally decided to break the prison.
Good, welcome to the world of 'Freedom' ! :)
I am a new-recruit programmer at American Int'l Group (AIG), and will be
buying a laptop soon. But I'm too much confused:
Which architecture to choose? Intel Centrino, or AMD64 (Turion)? Which one is
best supported by Linux? (I did hear rumors that AMD64 causes problems on
most distros)
When I bought a laptop, I chose the best one which I prefer, Whatever it
is, there will be one distro that will satisfy your needs. :) So, go and
buy what u prefer. Intel Centrino is what i have, and i suggest, but I
am not very much AMD literate.
Which distro? SUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva or Fedora? And where to get that in
Chennai?
I shall be using my Tux machine for development in J2EE, OpenLaszlo & Perl,
with Apache running around. Yeah, and also for office, multimedia and the
internet.
First, the choice of distro is something a personal preference. I
suggest Ubuntu Dapper, because it is the coolest distro on earth as of
now. There may be other things too, but many of us have been running
dapper in our lappy's and very much satisfied by it. If you have any
trouble, we are here to help :)
Any advice from the linux gurus here would be greatly appreciated, as I am in
a great dilemma. Plz send your suggestions to: sjsubbi@xxxxxxxxx
We always prefer a open discussion, so let the suggestions be in the
list. Not all of us are gurus, but still have wide varying experiences.
You can treat as your friends, and free to ask questions.
There are certain mailing rules which you are expected to follow, if
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will help you know better. Otherwise, learning through experience is
always there ;)
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With Regards
Parthan ('technofreak')
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Research Assistant @ NRC-FOSS and Python\PHP Developer
A Proud Tuxian and an Ubuntero
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