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I am looking for the latest Linux.

I wonder if anyone could recommend a good Linux distribution??

Red Hat or Slackware or something else?

Which one gives the most cooling desktop??

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Quote:>I wonder if anyone could recommend a good Linux distribution??

I have a list of distributions here:

        http://linux-rules.samiam.org/linux/distro.html

Quote:>Which one gives the most cooling desktop??

RedHat will match this when Gnome is ready for prime time.

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    >> Which one gives the most cooling desktop??

    Sam> SuSE does, with the KDE.  See the above web page for a link.

So in other words, KDE is your preferred desktop environment.
Why SuSE over e.g. Debian?

I am just curious - I hear people talk favorably about SuSE all the
time.  But I like one feature in Debian very much, and would be very
hard pressed to let it go: The 'menus' package.  Each window manager,
including KDE, provides a 'update-menus' method for adding items in
its menu; each application that you install contains information about
where to place it, its description, startup command, and requirements.
That way, the addition of installed packages in your menus is
automatic, and system-wide. (If individual users take advantage of
this feature - they do by default - their menus are updated as you
install more packages).

-tor

Quote:>Red Hat or Slackware or something else?

Quote:>Which one gives the most cooling desktop??

Quote:>I am just curious - I hear people talk favorably about SuSE all the
>time.  But I like one feature in Debian very much, and would be very
>hard pressed to let it go: The 'menus' package.  Each window manager,
>including KDE, provides a 'update-menus' method for adding items in
>its menu; each application that you install contains information about
>where to place it, its description, startup command, and requirements.
>That way, the addition of installed packages in your menus is
>automatic, and system-wide. (If individual users take advantage of
>this feature - they do by default - their menus are updated as you
>install more packages).

Quote:

>I would NOT recommend Slackware unless you like to hack your system A LOT!

If you're lucky (i.e., your hardware matches exactly what RH expects),
RH can install very smoothly (although I tends to install buckets of
stuff you'll probably never use, but then, disk space has gotten cheap).
On the other hand, RH has failed to setup X properly on several machines
from 4.0 to 4.2, and if X doesn't set up, all the pretty tools RH provides
aren't worth the powder to blow them.

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Dave Brown   Austin, TX

Every novice I've talked to who has had troubles setting up Linux has
turned out to be using Slackware.  A pretty poor track record IMO --
I'm afraid that Slackware is doing major damage to Linux's reputation.
(I'm aware that my personal experience is not statistically
significant.  But it remains suggestive, to me.)

OTOH, RH was unable to setup X on my well-supported video card (S3V)
on my latest machine.  Sheesh!  Both Slackware and Debian configured X
with no problems.

Quote:> If you're lucky (i.e., your hardware matches exactly what RH expects),
> RH can install very smoothly (although I tends to install buckets of
> stuff you'll probably never use, but then, disk space has gotten cheap).
> On the other hand, RH has failed to setup X properly on several machines
> from 4.0 to 4.2, and if X doesn't set up, all the pretty tools RH provides
> aren't worth the powder to blow them.

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[praise for the Debian menu system]

Quote:> I'm afraid to bust your bubble but S.u.S.e. also has a feature like this.

But SuSE and RH still use the markedly inferior RPM format.  If I
wanted to use a low-quality pseudo-standard, I would have gone with
Microsoft in the first place.  :-)

(The big disadvantage -- if you can call it that -- to Debian's dpkg
is that it's made me wish for something even better.  It does so much
more than RPM, but it could be doing even more.  I hope and pray that
neither RPM nor dpkg becomes so firmly entrenched that it halts all
future development on packaging systems.)
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Quote:>>I would NOT recommend Slackware unless you like to hack your system A LOT!

>Such nonsense!  Have you ever used Slackware?  I've probably done an
>equal number of installs of RH and Slack, and had many more trouble-free
>installs from Slackware.  It does require a little reading, though.