Re: FN-FORUM: linux desktop

date posted 17th January 2005 21:21

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Tony Crockford wrote:

>
> Thinking about moving to linux again.
>
> so, what's your favorite and why?

Fedora Core 3 - 'cos I'm lazy.

From memory, started with Suse 5.2 and progressed through Redhat
6.x,7.x,8.x,9.x, Fedora Core 1, 2 and now on 3.



> If you were going to do web dev work on a linux desktop, which distro
> would you use?

Fedora Core 3 ?

> (gentoo won't install on my machine, so that's out)

Tried 'Linux From Scratch' ? - http://mirror.vtx.ch/lfs/lfs/news.html

> looking for easy to install, easy to update and something that might be
> able to provide all the applications I might need for WebDev work.

Maybe not 'Linux From Scratch' then ...

I compile from source the things I use most e.g. Apache, Databases ...
everything else is rpm or whatever the app installer provides.

> I've looked at the wiki and briefly scanned the Linuxiso pages. I think
> what I'm looking for here is to hear from those of you using Linux for
> everyday use, and which distros have the apps i need.
>
> looking for at least: openoffice, Gimp, Firefox. would be great to have a
> scanning app, PIM and IRC as well.

not only but also .....

XMMS for audio - http://www.xmms.org/
PAN for Usenet - http://pan.rebelbase.com/
Xine for video - http://xinehq.de/
Pine for email - http://www.washington.edu/pine/

Also look at Abiword and Gnumeric w.r.t. OpenOffice.

> would be keen to find one that has an
> easy application installer.

RPM/yum/apt(?) - http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO

> Ideas anyone?

Fedora Forum - http://fedoraforum.org/forum/

HTH,

Graeme -