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04 02 2008

Distro Heaven

Posted by Alan in Technology

Talking of Linux Format, this month’s issue has a big “Distro Heaven” feature. Its nice roundup of 14 of the most popular Linux Distributions, and the cover DVD has 10 of them on it.

Its a cracking issue, and it was good fun flicking through the DVD the other day trying out the different LiveCDs. Its well worth picking up, and if you’ve never tried Linux before, then the different live CDs you can boot from the DVD will let you try out some of the different types without changing your hard disc. Brilliant!

Currently I’m an Ubuntu/SuSE man. Although I’m keen to install Fedora to get back into one of the more popular distros again, and PCLinuxOS has been getting a lot of good press in Linux Format.

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  1. David says:
    February 5, 2008 at 0:44

    OpenSUSE really impressed me. It has such a sleek bootup screen, which is usually unusual for a laptop widescreen.

  2. Alan says:
    February 5, 2008 at 10:04

    Yeah. I love their customised Grub bootloader. It looks so much swisher than the rather plain version offered by Ubuntu.

    Total eye-candy, but makes it look that bit more professional.

    Really must install PCLinuxOS on my spare partition. I’m meaning to see what all the fuss is about.

  3. Ken says:
    February 8, 2008 at 14:15

    Suse is brilliant! Balances nicely the requirements for a serious distro and a fun one.

  4. Alan says:
    February 8, 2008 at 14:50

    SuSE was actually the first distro I ever used, before I was lured away by Mandrake’s promises of easy GUI tools.

    Ah, memories. Trying to get the KDE 1.0alpha release to compile :-D

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