Replicator Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 For a newbie what distro is better after using Mandrake of course. I want to now any recommendations and why is better one distro or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I would say Suse is more noobie freindly than Fedora. That being said, I like Fedora the best. :P Just about everything is available under fedora in rpms, it's a developers/hackers distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicator Posted June 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I would say Suse is more noobie freindly than Fedora. That being said, I like Fedora the best. :P Just about everything is available under fedora in rpms, it's a developers/hackers distro. mmmmmmm ok, do I need the 5CD to install suse or only the first 4 disc, why so many disc in this distro??? I read some reviews about suse 9.1 Pro and looks killer to my eyes. Thanks for your advice !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Suse just packs about everything under the sun in 5 cd's. Unless you go and buy them. the only other "real" way to get it would be an ftp install, but if you run across the 5 cd's and you install a lot of stuff then you will need them all. I think there default install is the first 2, maybe 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Darkelve has a review of suse 9.1 in the Everything Linux forum, if you want to read all of his comments on the installation & usage of suse 9.1. I have a recent install of Fedora Core 2 and so far I really love it. As cybrjackle says, everything you could possibly want will be available somewhere thru apt-get or yum. I have been using yum to get everything so far, and its been pretty great so far. Since I had to cough up some money for a new system, home-built, about $400 for the mobo, processor, RAM, and video card, I couldn't pay for an $89 suse pro box. So I downloaded FC2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plati Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 yep id recommend fedora. Everything's available, and it has a cool default icon set :P Its ability to use yum *and* apt-get is cool, and means youll always find what you want. Plus I feel its more up to date, coz its like....cooler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicator Posted June 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 (edited) I take my choice today folks, I will go for Fedora Project 2 after I read some reviews here I am really keen now, so I will download now the 4 CDs. Thanks to all here this community is great. Replicator Edited June 21, 2004 by spinynorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 I also downloaded all 4 CDs. And I picked damn near everything during my Workstation Install (I kept all the default selections, and I added a bunch of other selections (like KDE desktop, grip, and lots of others) BUT it still only need the first 2 CDs during install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 I didn't need CD4, I think I only needed CD3 for some extra languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicator Posted June 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I just finished the first two disc but I cant get autoplay in CD1, I mount the image using Daemon Tools to take a look at the ISO file but no autoplay available. This is supposed to work like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inha Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I was thinking about giving FC2 a shot sometime soon. I was just wondering that when I install it do I need to repartition my hd or can I just install it on mandrake and keep all the data I already have in my home directory. I've got several gigs of videofiles and stuff I'd rather not burn on dvds to back them up until I put them back on my system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Replicator: If you've burned the ISO correctly it should be bootable, ensure you change your boot order in the BIOS. inha: Do you want to keep your Mandrake installation or just the home partition? Do you have /home on a seperate partition, or just part of the root partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inha Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Just my home partition which is on a separate partition. I'm guessing that keeping it shouldn't be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Correct, it isn't a problem at all - just ensure you use the manual partitioning feature instead of automatic. There is an option (IIRC) that sets the partition up to be mounted in the new distro without formating it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 If your going to use the same /home slice you might also need to remove a lot of the .files # ls -a /home Those "could" cause you problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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