[CS-FSLUG] Have I finally found a distro?

[N. Thompson]

On July 14, 2004 08:21 am, Chris Young wrote:
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> Glad to hear you've found a distribution that works well for you.  Some
> distributions may be too difficult to figure out until you get some more
> experience using Linux or have time to really dive in and work hard
> setting them up (eg. Debian -- at least for me).  But isn't it nice that
> we have plenty of choices? :)

Yes and no, I used up a lot of CD's finding a distribution I liked but now 
that I have it I'm happy, if there were less distributions it would have 
costed less in CD's but then I might not have found one I like. I'm going to 
go with Yes because I've still spent less on CD's then I would have needed to 
if I wanted to upgrade windows to the next version ;-) .

> I assume that you've already tried Mandrake.  I admit that I'm biased
> because that's what I've learned GNU/Linux on, but it's still my
> favorite.  I think the latest release, Mandrake 10.0 Official, is pretty
> good, but I understand that Mandrake is not for everyone.  I just like
> how they generally try to support Free Software (as in freedom) and yet
> the distro is not very hard to use.  It doesn't come with binary NVidia
> drivers (unless you buy one of their boxed products) but you can install
> those if you are so inclined.  Anyway, just thought it might be another
> good one to try if you haven't already.

I've been using Mandrake on and off since I started using it with 8.2, My 
major problem with Mandrake is how they set things up so you have a lot of 
trouble changing some settings, for example I did finally manage to change 
the GTK theme with GTK-theme-switch but I was absolutely unable to get the 
GTK colours to match KDE despite that being something that should happen 
anyway in most other distributions.

> I haven't ever tried Yoper, but I hope it works out well for you.  Enjoy
> the freedom of GNU/Linux!

Thats why I liked linux in the first place, Qt is free under Linux, the "free" 
Windows version doesn't allow you to compile static binaries and aside from 
that its not available for free unless you purchase a book so very few people 
can run your program. The proprietary nature of Windows is chasing off all 
the good developer tools and as a result all the developers are following 
their favourite tools to free/open platforms.

> Chris
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