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MS to Linux ?

by Integrity Oct 19, 2009 1:52AM PDT

Tired of MS swiss cheese security from DOS through XP. Do not desire to upgrade to support MS stockholders for another of its management & programmer blunders! Desire imputs of the OVERALL EASIEST LINUX translation from MS. I am currently using Ubuntu, [ Jaunty Jallopee, Vers 9.02 I believe ], in duaL BOOT WITH XP on 3 computers. I prefer to contribute to an open-source, donation oriented, non-profit organization, than feed the already overly rich stockholders and overly paid employees of MS. Please list recommendations and why you feel it is the OVERALL EASIEST to use !

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Ubuntu is a good introduction
by Porch-a-Geese Oct 20, 2009 1:06PM PDT

However, you will need to learn the command line and move away from sudo dependency.
If you have installed it, use virtual-box to install one of the older distros such as Debian, Slackware, fedora, or SUSE.
The problem is that MS is after a profit and not for a product.
At one time, the product was Xenix. Now it is a version of NT.

Recommendations:
Fedora: Up to date, easy to configure.
Open-SUSE: same as above.
Debian & Slackware: customizable.

There are other distros such as: Ubuntu- what you have, PCLinuxOS- used by others on here, ZenWalk- a small slack based distro.

I also use BSD releases. FreeBSD then NetBSD followed by OpenBSD for trying out.
These monsters- because of compiling and building time not performance- are very reliable.

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Ubuntu
by GODhack Oct 20, 2009 8:31PM PDT

Ubuntu is correct choice.

If you want to donate better donate to software projects like mplayer etc. etc. most popular distros live quite well already.

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Mandriva is Better Choice
by R_Head Oct 23, 2009 3:00AM PDT

It has the most intuitive and friendly GUI from installation and setups. It has what is called the MCC (Mandriva Control Center), larger amount of repositories. I dual boot on one computer the rest has only Mandriva (converted my Mother in Law, she is about 60+ old and she has no issues and loves it!).

If you want a test drive, get Mandriva One, is a Live Disc that boots off your DVD/CD drive and does not installs in your system unless you tell it to. If you do not like it, turn off the system and remove the media. Another is Mandriva Flash, is an USB drive loaded with Mandriva. Also you can install it on a USB HDD and have a HDD and boot from it to rescue systems.

I have done all that via GUI very few command line.

Beside you use command lines in MS too... like Ping, IPCONFIG, NBSTAT, and so on...

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