Re: FN-FORUM: Best Linux Distribution?

date posted 18th August 2004 20:58

> > People seem to say Slackware is good though I have never tried it. You
> > could always try Gentoo if you have Linux knowledge already, though my
> > attempt at installing it failed miserably.
>
> If you follow the instructions very carefully, and you're installing to
> reasonably standard hardware you shouldn't really have a problem.

I almost got there - installed everything - tried to login and it
wouldn't let me. I'm fairly sure that I did the 'passwd' command as
said. However, it didn't help that I tried to print the instructions
double-sided and they were all in a fairly random order!

> > are basically all the same. I've always found the Linux desktop to be
> > quite a lot more resource hungry than the Windows shell though.
>
> Which desktop would that be?
>
> You can always choose to use something lightweight.

I'm using Gnome on RedHat 9, though it seems alot better that KDE on
SuSE 7.2. I would like something more light-weight, but everything
seems to be in two extremes - there is KDE and Gnome at one end and
all the other windowing-systems (probably not the technical term) at
the other end. Would be nice to have something in the middle - ie, not
as many options as KDE/Gnome and more to it than the others. Maybe
there is and I just havn't come across it. I'm not really complaining
about Gnome, just dosen't seem to perform as well as Windows was on
this machine.

Regards,
Joe.