Which Linux distro?

Jari-Matti Mäkelä jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid
Thu Apr 26 03:57:38 PDT 2007


Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:42:42 -0500, Dave wrote:
> 
>> I've been using RH or Fedora for years, but I'd like to hear what others have to say about some of 
>> the other distros. Have been hearing a lot about Ubuntu lately. Any trustworthy rating sites or 
>> articles out there?
>>
>> And time for a new machine w/ Vista (because I need to keep current in that world). I'm sick of 
>> dual-booting, so am also wondering which VM / linux distro. will work well w/ Vista. Free (as in 
>> beer) would be nice, but, being a programmer, I'd rather spend my time on that rather than on 
>> setting up VM's and linux <g>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Dave
> 
> I haven't tried to vm vista, but the vmware server works fine for xp. I
> personally use Debian testing, the only thing I have seen Ubuntu offer is a
> bunch of pre-installed graphical front end programs. Suse was the only one
> I could get Compiz working with my ati card. Other than that it really is
> up to you.

IIRC, the licenses of the cheaper versions of Vista do not allow running
it in a VM. This is probably done to improve the rich user experience :P


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