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29 Dec 2008, 9:39 pm

The Distro is light. Has OpenOffice, Amarok, GStreamer Codecs, Opera, & automatic mounting for flash drives. Where you can install a program with ease of use like you where in windows.[Just Double-Click and magic is done for you. NO COMMAND-LINE OR SCRIPTING.]

Thats what I need, Oh is PCosLinux any good!! !

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29 Dec 2008, 11:27 pm

I've toyed with Red Had back in the day (v9), but unfortunately in a school setting. It was an OS-centric sort of class, so aside from some toys in the GUI...I dunno.

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29 Dec 2008, 11:38 pm

Maybe Linspire or Freespire?

maybe try distrowatch.com for many variants of Linux.

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30 Dec 2008, 1:52 am

Try Vector Linux. If you want Amarok, that's a KDE app, so go for the SOHO edition. Opera, FireFox, and Dillo or Links (can't remember which) come by default, as does OOo. All the proprietary multimedia stuff comes pre-installed for you, so no worries about Flash, Gstreamer, and all the rest. It's a light, highly functional system. The standard version is a 15-minute install and comes with more functionality out of the box than most other OS's get after 3 or 4 hours of wrestling. I haven't tried installing new stuff in it, but Ubuntu has a very good system for doing that in Add/Remove and also Synaptic. I think VL is also pretty focused on making life easy for the end user, though. Try it, see if you like it, if not dump it.

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30 Dec 2008, 2:36 am

There is Linux XP, the gui is similar to Windows XP. I have never used it though. I believe it's based on fedora.

You know, you can run amarok in gnome, xfce, kde...etc Doesn't matter too much which gui you use, for the most part anyways.

Sabayon is supposed to be pretty simple to use, I think.

PClinuxOS is an ok one

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30 Dec 2008, 3:37 am

Arch Linux is pretty good. It uses xfce (or is it gnome) like Fedora? Fedora uses gnome and it's also a good distro. OpenSuse isn't bad either. I think it uses KDE, but I am not sure.

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30 Dec 2008, 3:45 am

God forbid you have to double click on a .deb package & have gdebi install it for you!

....lol

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30 Dec 2008, 11:26 am

RaceDrv709 wrote:

Arch Linux is pretty good. It uses xfce (or is it gnome) like Fedora? Fedora uses gnome and it's also a good distro. OpenSuse isn't bad either. I think it uses KDE, but I am not sure.

I think Arch might be a little more technical than what Gamefreak was asking for. Arch is popular among hobbyists and people who use it to learn more about Linux, so as a "just start it up and it works" distro it might not be the best choice.

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30 Dec 2008, 3:51 pm

Mint (Ubuntu based, few differences)
ZandrOS (Debian based, designed to work with Windows and can use .deb and .rpm)(Also the first Linux distro I used)

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30 Dec 2008, 3:57 pm

I use Gentoo on my webserver.

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30 Dec 2008, 4:53 pm

Xubutnu!
Seriously, Ubuntu really made Linux much better. I've used SuSE and Fedora in the past, but they weren't very good.
PC-BSD looks good if you want to try something other than Ubuntu though.

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30 Dec 2008, 4:59 pm

Orwell wrote:

VL's gui looks like that of a mac, and personally I hate the apple guis (too much scrolly s**t for my tastes...) Does it (or a distro like it) come with a more standard gnome/kde/whatever gui at all?

Here's what would be good for me: a machine (in this case it's an old P3 I have) that can run both pidgin and a vnc to a gui on the OS. The distro should be lightweight (aside from those two functions it would do nothing else at all), but have a gui (since I'm still not well-versed in the shell, although I'm taking a class in that next semester...)

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30 Dec 2008, 5:34 pm

ToadOfSteel wrote:

VL's gui looks like that of a mac, and personally I hate the apple guis (too much scrolly sh** for my tastes...) Does it (or a distro like it) come with a more standard gnome/kde/whatever gui at all?

Choice of XFCE or KDE. Might be customized a bit by VL in the base install, but it did not strike me, when I installed it, as being at all similar to the Mac GUI. If you pay for the "deluxe" version I think it comes with a knock-off Dock, but that should be easy to get rid of.

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Here's what would be good for me: a machine (in this case it's an old P3 I have) that can run both pidgin and a vnc to a gui on the OS. The distro should be lightweight (aside from those two functions it would do nothing else at all), but have a gui (since I'm still not well-versed in the shell, although I'm taking a class in that next semester...)

VL Standard version. XFCE, very, very lightweight, fast, simple install, pidgin is installed by default and vnc can be obtained easily. Extremely lightweight, but there is also a "light" edition in case VL Standard is too much.

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30 Dec 2008, 7:01 pm

atari2600a wrote:

God forbid you have to double click on a .deb package & have gdebi install it for you!

....lol

Gee Debbi, you do so much for me!

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30 Dec 2008, 7:36 pm

Orwell wrote:

So Vector Linux, Standard Edition is the one

Will it run on a 750Mhz AMD Athlon with 512MB Ram.

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30 Dec 2008, 7:48 pm

gamefreak wrote:

So Vector Linux, Standard Edition is the one

Will it run on a 750Mhz AMD Athlon with 512MB Ram.

Oh yeah, that's more than powerful enough to handle VL. The good news is that since the installation is so fast, if you end up not liking it, you haven't wasted too much time on it.

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