Best Linux programs

Nigeljt74

I've recently installed PCLinuxOS on my in-laws PC due to a hooky copy of windows XP and they are getting along fine with it. I tried various flavours gOS looked quite good but PCLinuxOS was the easiest to set up their wireless on as it recognised and installed their wireless card easily

fermi

technomcgeek wrote: »

Hi thought it might be useful to give a roundup of distros used too, I'm currently putting Ubuntu onto a few machines and even newbs are finding it really usable, Any others worth a try?

Always found Mandriva very good.

KDE 4 is still useless though.

old_codger1

asininity wrote: »

Thats the thing, sometimes and for somethings I actually find the commandline easier to use, more straight forward. That could be a product of becoming a geek though.

I'm a'hearin you on FM dude

'Real programmers don't eat quiche... in fact, most real programmers can't even spell quiche'.
TBH, I tend to use the CL most of the time, usually using vi :eek: for text editing.

old_codger1

technomcgeek wrote: »

Hi thought it might be useful to give a roundup of distros used too, I'm currently putting Ubuntu onto a few machines and even newbs are finding it really usable, Any others worth a try?

I've used quite a few in the past few years but PCLinuxOS, (as yer man suggests), is good. I run ubuntu on my 'big' machine, (not that it's that big:(), and xubuntu on my old Toshiba laptop. It's got a 15Gb HDD, (of which windoze takes up 7Gb for fiddling purposes), and 128Mb ram so can't handle anything else.

elvch01

I use Fedora Core 10 exclusively and find it v stable & easy to set up - I have it running on half a dozen or so VMware images

piggeh

Anyone used Debian 5? How does it compare to other distros? Any problems with drivers?