Re: If you want to try Linux.....

    I've tried Ubuntu, and while I think it is a great basic OS, it
didn't work out for me because the computer I was trying it on did not
have any connection to the OS.

   I needed something that would play various multimedia files (h.264,
mpeg4, etc.) right out of the box.

   Instead of basic Ubuntu, I went with a variant that was developed
exactly for this purpose: Linux Mint.  Right out of the box, it will
play pretty much any video file you throw at it.

 
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, OhioGuy wrote:


It is good of you to share your experiences with everyone else.

Thank you.

As for myself, the "best" Linux out of all I tried was Red Hat 6.2. Of
course, I think a lot of the later versions might have been  "tweaked" up
more specifically for the latest hardwares but I've still got a lot of old
hardware here (some 10 years old), and the hardware incompatibilities
start showing up. My old hardware did not have "boot-off-CDROM"
capability, so there was almost no way available to me to install the
later versions, and the new CDROM drivers were not compatible with my old
CDROM drives. Not to mention some of the other problems I ran into, or
things I wanted but could not get in Linux.

 On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:43:39 -0500, Jeff wrote:

Gnome or KDE?

If Gnome, I'd lean toward Ubuntu. If KDE, you might want to try Mandriva
first. Mandrake (as Mandriva was called back then) was the first distro I
tried and I stuck with it for years.

Currently I'm using Kubuntu, the KDE based version of Ubuntu. In my
opinion, the biggest advantage of Kubuntu over Mandriva is Kubuntu's
software repositories. The disadvantage is that Canonical is Gnome
centric, so Kubuntu doesn't get as much development as Ubuntu.

If you will be using KDE, I would avoid KDE 4 until it has had some time
to mature. Perhaps six months to a year. Kubuntu 8.04 is the last version
with KDE 3.x, not sure about Mandriva.

As for specifics about touch screen tablets, I don't know what would best
suit your needs. I've never had or used one.

If you can find time, you might want to read the Ubuntu and Mandriva
newsgroups and website forums.

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