Linux Anybody?

[malivogueako]

guys i want to replace this BS windows with Linux. ano ba magandang pangalang ng linux ngayon ang da best. DAmi ko kasi naririnig na Suse, Ubuntu, fedora, etc. nakaka-confuse. pang personal laptop lang. thanks!

[masurao]

guys i want to replace this BS windows with Linux. ano ba magandang pangalang ng linux ngayon ang da best. DAmi ko kasi naririnig na Suse, Ubuntu, fedora, etc. nakaka-confuse. pang personal laptop lang. thanks!

 

Easiest to acquire and install would be Ubuntu.

[EOD Winz]

Easiest to acquire and install would be Ubuntu.

 

I tried all sorts of distros during the linux craze in the late nineties and early twenties. I loved SUSE, Novell, Fedora, until i discovered Ubuntu in 2003. It's the easiest to play around with especially if you're a newbie. My whole family uses just ubuntu and Mac OSX at home. support is also a big plus for ubuntu. you can cstomize it buy just checking and unchecking softwre and developers are starting to create fanware for it. YMMV but for me, as a beginner in the late nieties, ubuntu came as a charm in 2003.

[69lukeskywalker]

Ubuntu is the easiest linux distro i've ever touched. I've been using linux since 1997 and Ubuntu tops all other

distro's in terms of ease of use for the desktop environment. I highly recommend it for new users.

[lohengrimtam]

im using ubuntu.

 

installed it with WUBI

[itikbitik]

Most Distros are no longer as efficient as they were before when you compile the kernel to match the hardware and get rid of the stuff that is not needed. I'm still partial to Slackware and Gentoo. But Ubuntu is works well with most notebooks so I dual boot mine with gentoo with gnome and ubuntu.

[johnlove]

Are there Linux flavor with built in ACAD or ACAD compatible software? Thanks.

[dee_oh_em]

i agree with most poster here. ubuntu is definitely one of the best (if not the best). with the release of 10.04, it got even better!

[hellyeah2]

Ubuntu is the best for desktop! For servers must be Red Hat! IMHO.

[itikbitik]

I beg to disagree with RedHat being the best for servers as a general statement. It really depends on the purpose of the server. Say Mysql DB servers that requires a lot of IOPs would work really well in a Hardened and stripped down Gentoo setup while a Deployment server that kickstarts other servers using PXE works very well in Red Hat or it's derivatives like CentOS, though my Debian/Ubuntu PXE server works fine but not in an environment that requires at least 50 simultaneous kick. In some cases though I would skip linux altogether and use FreeBSD in a CDN environment that is HD video intensive.

[johnlove]

I feel that unless a linux distro could come up with a acad compatible linux flavor, windows would continue her grip on the computer world.

[itikbitik]

QCAD and OPEN CASCADE is not a bad alternative to ACAD.

[VinceThePrince]

Sir how can i run flv files in ubuntu?

[itikbitik]

@vince the prince

 

vlc will play flv files.

 

if vlc is not installed just open terminal and run "sudo apt-get install vlc"

[omphs_xxxx]

Im a proud linux user:

 

"Linux aqua-madidus 2.6.28-18-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:40:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux"

My Laptop and Desktop OS

 

I use it secondary to Mac.