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Run one main distro and then try all the rest as virtual machines in Virtualbox, thats how I do it.
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Re: Distribution Hoping
I too dislike their brownish/orange defaults. But it only takes a few mouse clicks to 'correct' that problemLostOverThere wrote: Ubuntu is good - but ugly
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i also like to try different distros but i also like to have that one setup which works... so i have my main installation occupying most of my hard disk... but i have a 5GB test partition that I use to play around... and whenever i find one that is worthy of my main installation, it dethrones the current ruler... however, this is a rare occurence...
my main installations since i started using Linux in 2004...
RedHat 9 > Windows XP (I was undergoing withdrawal symptoms...) > Mandrake 10.0 > Mandriva 2005 LE > Mandriva 2006 Free > Ubuntu Dapper > Ubuntu Edgy (upgraded not reinstalled) > Ubuntu Feisty (upgraded) > Linux Mint Cassandra XFCE Community Edition.
Other distros I have tried... SuSE 9, SuSE 10, Debian, Slackware, Lindows (anybody remember this one?), MEPIS, Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, Gentoo Stage 1 (didnt get very far with this one), Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Linux Mint Bianca, Linux Mint Bianca KDE, Vector Linux (dont remember what version... 5 maybe?), Slax, DSL, Puppy Linux, KNOPPIX,
For my home server I used Mandriva 2006 Free > Ubuntu Feisty Server.
thats it... hope i havent forgotten any...
my main installations since i started using Linux in 2004...
RedHat 9 > Windows XP (I was undergoing withdrawal symptoms...) > Mandrake 10.0 > Mandriva 2005 LE > Mandriva 2006 Free > Ubuntu Dapper > Ubuntu Edgy (upgraded not reinstalled) > Ubuntu Feisty (upgraded) > Linux Mint Cassandra XFCE Community Edition.
Other distros I have tried... SuSE 9, SuSE 10, Debian, Slackware, Lindows (anybody remember this one?), MEPIS, Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, Gentoo Stage 1 (didnt get very far with this one), Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Linux Mint Bianca, Linux Mint Bianca KDE, Vector Linux (dont remember what version... 5 maybe?), Slax, DSL, Puppy Linux, KNOPPIX,
For my home server I used Mandriva 2006 Free > Ubuntu Feisty Server.
thats it... hope i havent forgotten any...
distro hopping
in no particular order, only counting the ones I tested within the last three years (using linux since quite a longer time)
*Freespire 1.0 + 2.0 (nicely polished, but always problems with my graphic card)
*Fedora diff. versions (took me some time to configure and polish it, but ran fine then)
*Knoppix Live CD ('nuff said)
*Kubuntu (well - not bad, lacks polishing)
*Opensuse
*Old Suse
*PC Linux OS (repository and app install too slow)
*Linux Mint (favourite so far)
*Debian
*Some BSD's
Well
I think I will stay with Linux Mint KDE for a while. making a customised live dvd for me probably.
*Freespire 1.0 + 2.0 (nicely polished, but always problems with my graphic card)
*Fedora diff. versions (took me some time to configure and polish it, but ran fine then)
*Knoppix Live CD ('nuff said)
*Kubuntu (well - not bad, lacks polishing)
*Opensuse
*Old Suse
*PC Linux OS (repository and app install too slow)
*Linux Mint (favourite so far)
*Debian
*Some BSD's
Well
I think I will stay with Linux Mint KDE for a while. making a customised live dvd for me probably.