Mmhm
So, it looks like I’ll be getting a laptop in August, through some charity thing the KUL is doing (possibly only for KHL CS students). That way it’ll only cost about 700 € for a fairly decent computer (which leaves me with enough cash on hand to also get a new desktop, which is necessary).
I don’t have the exact specs in front of me (and I can’t seem to find them online, which suggests this may be less than legal), but it’s a fairly decent mid-to-high-range machine.
It’ll also come with Windows Vista Business (the flyer we got said Vista Professional, but that’s not something that exists) preinstalled, which means I’ll be formatting it and installing Linux.
This’ll be my first pure Linux system (I’m currently dual-booting Windows XP and Fedora Core 3), so the right choice of OS is kind of important. Any advice?
Right now I’m thinking either Fedora (because I have some experience with it, and it does have a fairly large company of experienced developers backing it, as opposed to the handful of hobbyists many Linux distros have to make do with) or Gentoo Linux. Or maybe Debian, though I’d like to avoid Ubuntu because, you know.
echomikeromeo said,
July 7th, 2007 at 2:40 am
I’m pretty happy with Ubuntu myself, though I don’t really know enough about other distros to comment on any others.
Cairnarvon said,
July 7th, 2007 at 2:57 am
Too many people are using Ubuntu nowadays, and there’s a particularly large pocket of users in Leuven. It’s kind of destroying the security through variety side of things (which I’ll grant, as security goes, isn’t much better than security through obscurity), and it feels too much like a bandwagon.
Dell offering it now doesn’t really help.
Michael said,
July 12th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
ubuntu is a dream to work with, though. Sometimes the bandwagon is going where you want to go!
But you are obviously a “power user” so I’m sure any distro will be fine. I just don’t subscribe to the attitude that anything other people like sucks.
Cairnarvon said,
July 12th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Misanthropy is a way of life.
Livia said,
July 24th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
If you want hardcore Linux, try Slackware?