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Suggest me an OS!

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Dark Star
Dark Star Original post #1
Sep 5, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Hey all
Am fed up with Ubuntu atm :mad: The apt-get missing error now shook me badly can you plz suggest me a dif.. OS I am planning for open Suse 10.2 .. a debian based osn't it ? :-| SO plz tell me which debian 1 should I go for ;)

Regards
linux_ubuntu
Sep 5, 2007 at 9:32 AM
buddy try mepis or Fedora, but ubuntu is best one :) and i am using it last 3 years :)
Dark Star
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:06 AM
^^ I know that bro.. but apt-get missing erro .. shook me badly :x see I have installled it nearly 10 times on PC sometime due to grub missing soe time due to something .. blahblahblah . :xSo downloading open SUSE 10.2 .. Is it debian based ?:?
infra_red_dude
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:08 AM
you wanna try a new debian basic os? mempis is great.... or why don't you install debian itself? btw, open suse is NOT debian based.
Dark Star
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:19 AM
^^ Then Based on?
saurabh.sauron
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:24 AM
not based on anything, though it can be compared to fedora. it uses it's own packaging system. it supports RPM.
Sykora
Sykora #7
Sep 5, 2007 at 12:01 PM
If you haven't tried fedora, then try it. There are others you can go for, but if you want an OS for normal use (ie not experimentation), go for F7.
gary4gar
Sep 5, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Try Debian, trust me its rock solid & stable distro
also now the installing has become easy for newbies, because of migration to GUI from CLI in the latest release.
hoever if you like the text based mode, its still there.
vish786
vish786 #9
Sep 5, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Shashwat Pant said:
^^ Then Based on?
a decade ago, it was based on slackware, then was based on Jurix distribution.
but now its based on nothing.
Suse stands on its own base working with rpm package.

1998 src1.
src2
skghosh44
skghosh44 #10
Sep 5, 2007 at 8:49 PM
You are all talking about Linux distros. My I please know what is the minimum system configuration to install Fedora 7.