[juneau-lug] Re: Different Distro

  • From: Chuck Hakari <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:02:12 -0900

Jason,

Thanks for the info. I tried Xandros 1. It installed easily, looked nice 
and worked well. Can't remember if the Open Circulation version included 
devel tools. I compile a fair number of programs, so this is important 
to me. I forgot to ask Fritz about this in the Mandrake distro. I'm 
going to take another look at Suse, and I'm in the process of 
downloading CentOS, which is based on RHEL. Still the same tools as 
Fedora, but maybe more bugfree.

Chuck

>I like Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Version 2.0.1 
>(http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop_matrix.html) as a Wintel 
>desktop replacement.  I like it enough that I spent 2 solid months using 
>it as my only OS on my desktop PC at my State of Alaska job with no loss 
>of productivity.
>
>There were only 3 *minor* work-related tasks that I couldn't do 
>"natively" under Xandros, and I was able to get around that by setting 
>up a Windows box on the counter behind me and using Remote Desktop 
>Connection for those 10-15 minutes per day.  As far as home use goes, IF 
>LINUX IN GENERAL HAD BETTER DIRECTX SUPPORT (or more of my Windows-based 
>FPS games had Linux ports, or ran better under WineX/etc), I'd be 
>running some version of Xandros on my home PC's as well.
>
>As far as server platforms go, I use either Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 
>(http://www.trustix.org) or OpenBSD 3.6 (not really a Linux, but still a 
>free-as-in-beer operating system, http://www.openbsd.org), depending on 
>the intended role(s) of the server.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Jason
>
>  
>

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