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What Linux to get?

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:01 pm
by Jonah Bron
Hi,

I was just wondering what linux you use. Also, where to download it.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:07 pm
by s.dot
Depends on your familiarity with linux/unix.

From a personal standpoint I prefer FreeBSD, but if you're wanting to go with linux I like (k)ubuntu or fedora core.

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:07 pm
by alex.barylski
Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly...

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:20 pm
by Jonah Bron
Good. Downloading now...2% (15.4mb / 695mb 44kb/sec 4hr 22min)

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:38 pm
by s.dot
Get it from a torrent if that's not your max download speed. I got it from a torrent at speeds close to a meg per second. :)

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:59 pm
by Jonah Bron
A torrent? What's that? Yes, that's the connection speed.

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:49 pm
by s.dot
A torrent is a data file that contains information about the file you're downloading. When you use a torrent client such utorrent, bittorrent, etc, you can download the file from lots of people at the same time.

Here's a screenshot of utorrent. I decided to give kubuntu gutsy gibbon a try.. check out my nice download speed :) http://i10.tinypic.com/81ggkz4.jpg

You're limited by the speed of your connection in a lot of cases (mine is maxed out right now). But a lot of times you get faster speeds downloading from multiple sources rather than limiting your download to one http or ftp request.

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:49 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Ubuntu is probably the easiest to use out of the box. Fedora is a nice distro, as is SuSe (though they have left a "sellout" taste in a lot of users' mouths with their Microsoft license agreement). Still, there are hundreds to choose from, but the most popular these days seems to be either Ubuntu or Fedora. If you are new to linux, go with Ubuntu. If you have any experience with linux, Fedora is a clean usable distro.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:29 am
by s.dot
We haven't heard from him since. :lol: Hope he made a backup image of his hard drive!

(on a side note kubuntu gutsy gibbon wouldn't install directly out of the box for me, but dapper drake did)

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:32 am
by John Cartwright
scottayy wrote:We haven't heard from him since. :lol:
Hopefully he reads this before he reformats his drive.. but you can run Ubuntu from CD to play around with and decide if thats your flavor or not. Personally, I love Ubuntu as my desktop choice since it's easy enough for a beginner linux user but tasty enough for a former windows power user.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:40 am
by feyd
Have you looked at the polls posted at the top of the Linux forum?

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:42 pm
by VladSun
//off topic
scottayy wrote:.. check out my nice download speed :)
Here, in Bulgaria, an ordinary download speed from a Bulgarian torrent tracker (i.e. with Bulgarian seeders) is between 6 to 10MByte per second - prices from 13$ to 17$ ;)
This is true for users of so called "LAN ISPs" - ISPs that use fibre for base network and 100BASE-TX (100Mbit Ethernet) for "last-mile" network.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:04 pm
by John Cartwright
VladSun wrote://off topic
scottayy wrote:.. check out my nice download speed :)
Here, in Bulgaria, an ordinary download speed from a Bulgarian torrent tracker (i.e. with Bulgarian seeders) is between 6 to 10MByte per second - prices from 13$ to 17$ ;)
This is true for users of so called "LAN ISPs" - ISPs that use fibre for base network and 100BASE-TX (100Mbit Ethernet) for "last-mile" network.
8O

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:14 pm
by Weirdan
Jcart wrote:8O
I think it's true for all East-Europe countries - 100Mbit last mile is pretty much standard in Ukraine as well (in large cities at least). ADSL is not in favor here :)

In Odessa providers started to use fibre for last mile recently though... it seems copper lines will disappear in several years completely.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:49 pm
by Kieran Huggins
On behalf of everyone in North America: *sniff* :cry: