Text 912, 65 rader
Skriven 2007-02-01 09:25:00 av Sam Alexander (633.dove-nix)
    Kommentar till text 908 av Tracker1 (629.dove-nix)
Ärende: Re: SuSE letdown/FreeBSD
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  Re: Re: SuSE letdown/FreeBSD
  By: Tracker1 to Sam Alexander on Wed Jan 31 2007 07:43 pm

 > Sam Alexander wrote:
 > > I was a Red Hat guy until after RH 9.0 when they dropped their public
 > > release (Fedora was a letdown for me).  I bought SuSE 9.2 (I think it was)
 > > but it just didn't click with me for some reason.  I then went to Slackwar
 > > and have been there ever since.  My latest distro is Ubuntu, which is what
 > > I'm typing this on, and it's great!  Compared to Windows and OSX, it's
 > > truly ready for mainstream IMO.
 > 
 > I will say, that imho it's one of the best mainstream choices for linux, and
 > with the next version looking at an installer for the "unsupported" stuff
 > like DVD, win-codecs etc.. even better still... EasyUbuntu made the install
 > relatively painless, but something that comes with is still better...
 > 
 > They still need some work, in some areas they fall over a month behind the
 > debian apt servers, so when you want a cutting edge version of something, it
 > takes a while...  For general desktop use, I've setup a few clients with it,
 > and between OOo, Firefox, and Thunderbird or Evolution, it does the job...
 > 
 > There are a few loose ends though...  A nice tie in for Cedega (for gamers),
 > or some efforts towards improved Wine would go a long way.

I couldn't agree with you more...  Ubuntu for the desktop is the best I've 
seen in my 10 years of using Linux.  I'm in the process of setting-up a 
system for my parents, and though they tried Slackware (and hated it) a 
few years ago, I might try Ubuntu now.  

What is Cedega?  I keep hearing of this, but I've never heard of it 
(hitting Google in a bit).  Is it like Loki where they port Windows games 
to Linux?  

Something though that you touched on that does need work is Wine.  A friend 
impressed the hell outta me with Fedora when he installed it, dropped an 
Office 2000 cd in to the system, and up popped the Installer.  He installed 
MS Office with zero problems, and it worked!  I've been trying for two 
weeks to get MS Office to install on my Ubuntu box (without having to pay 
for Crossover Linux), but no dice.  If Ubuntu would work this kind of 
functionality into Ubuntu and maybe finetune Wine to install the common 
Windows apps, it would be an added bonus.

But I'm more then impressed for the desktop.  For the server, I'll probably 
stick with Slackware as I don't run GUI on my servers.  However I'll give 
Ubuntu a shot next time I setup a new server.

Take care --

Sam


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