[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

Mon Mar 2 15:46:06 EST 2015

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I've settled on Fedora for now, and I'm pretty impressed so far.

Edward

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

I've not settled on a "standard" desktop yet as my hardware choices have variable graphics cards - some with nvidia need extra work. I use the built-in graphical workstation as the base.

Elrepo provides hardware support not in rhel - it replaces rpmfusion for nvidia and wireless modules. Li.nux.ro<http://Li.nux.ro>  provides multimedia capabilities that rpmfusion did. I'm not sure why rpmfusion is not supporting 7 like 6. At any rate, those two repos add packages without replacing any from the is repo. That stops the dependency breaks in the core system.

On Mar 1, 2015 10:59 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net<mailto:lnxgnome at hopnet.net>> wrote:
Yes, it was quite different.  I did have EPEL, but I've been burned by repo conflicts in the past (not CentOS 7), so I don't typically add multiple repos, unless they are app specific (i.e. google-earth repo).

I've come across elrepo before, but not li.nux.ro<http://li.nux.ro>.

Do you have a preferred config (kickstart files anyone?) for a CentOS 7 Desktop?

On 3/1/15 12:54 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

Centos 7 desktop is different beast from centos 6. You really do have to add the epel, elrepo and li.nux.ro<http://li.nux.ro> desktop repos to get a really good desktop environment. I have several running on older iMac hardware in my student lab. The kids whine for windows desktops but I only provide  Linux because the computational cluster runs Linux.

On Mar 1, 2015 12:27 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net<mailto:lnxgnome at hopnet.net>> wrote:
Hi Edward,

I recently changed distros for my desktop.  I'm now using Fedora 21 (Gnome).  It's really my first time using Fedora for an extended period, and I'm liking it pretty well.

I had been using OpenSuSE for many years (14ish).  I tried updating from 12.3 to 13.2, and wound up with an unbootable system, due to a) using fakeraid/striping for my boot disks, and b) bugs related to that in the init that prevents it from mounting /.  I might try 13.3 again when it comes out, but 13.2 is DOA as far as I'm concerned.

Before moving to Fedora, I tried Ubuntu's last Desktop LTS and the latest Linux Mint.  Both have problems similar to OpenSuSE (but not identical) with fakeraid/striping.  However, they will fail to mount / even when installed on a standalone disk, if a striped/fakeraid disk set exists on the system.  That's fubar.

So, next was CentOS7.  It just isn't ready for prime-time as a desktop OS yet (compared to CentOS6 or OpenSuSE).

That left me looking at Slackware and Fedora.  I picked Fedora for "ease of use" (with many memories of installing Slackware from a stack of 23 floppy disks....), and almost three weeks later, I'm still using it.

Disclaimer: for the past year, my other desktop has been a mac with OS X 10 (code named "redundant").  I have CentOS 6 on most of my servers, with a couple running Oracle EL6 and OVM3.

--LnxGnome

On 2/28/15 7:19 PM, Edward James Monson, II wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for about 5 years, and I'm ready to try something new. I'm fairly comfortable with the command line. I'm curious what distributions people on this list use, and how they rate in difficulty compared to Ubuntu. I'd also prefer to use something a lot of other people use so I have more people I can run to for help. :)

Thanks, and nice to meet you,

Edward

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