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I am new to Linux and was wondering, which Operating system would be best for doing a lot of computer programming and working with wireless?
THANKS!
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For wireless the NDISWRAPPER is doing fine and for programming I used SYNAPTIC to go get the rest of KDEVELOP.
Bob
Don't know how it is with wireless but it had no problem finding my dsl connection at all. I am ALMOST putting it up there with Mandriva or Suse. This one is a lot better than the previous version of Ubuntu I have tried.
Basically, any Linux distribution with decent repositories will be able to fulfill those needs.
Are you looking for something easy to use and full-featured, Or fast? Or extremely tweakable?
Here are the distrowatch weekly listings in terms of page hits, but I've deleted the ones which are unlikely to have many programming-related packages available for them (or poor wireless).
1 Ubuntu 2878=
2 openSUSE 2012<
3 PCLinuxOS 1634>
4 Fedora 1439<
5 MEPIS 1228<
6 Debian 1125>
7 Mandriva 984<
8 Sabayon 933>
9 Mint 787>
14 Gentoo 574=
15 Kubuntu 500=
18 Vector 463=
I haven't tried all those distributions, but generally since you're a newcomer I wouldn't recommend anything Slackware-based or Gentoo-based. Too difficult for recent Windows converts.
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