Hi,

I did stupid things with my hard drive and distroid my old Dapper Ubuntu.
Today I have to install a new Linux and dont know which I may choose.
I want to get the best desktop system and easy to use.
Can you help me to choose please?

thnx

hello Serge

It's pretty hard to answer this question as many linux distros are available (ubuntu, Suse, Debian, Gentoo, Crux, Yellow Dog, Fedora etc..) and i wouldn't think in terms of "which one is the best". The right question you should ask to yourself is "which one fits my needs".

Ubuntu became harder to install with recent versions, Suse seems easier to install but personaly i could never get used to the packages system, just a matter of personal taste.
Gentoo was very nice to use on Pegasos, but you have to get your hands deep into it, it's not user friendly but you keep in control on most things.

I'd say, try a few ones, and pick up the one you'll feel the best with.

@ SoundSquare:
OK, I understand.

Ubuntu was always the good distro for my needs.
Now, I dont know if I can easly install a newer version than Dapper.
It seems to be hard to install 8.0.4 cause lot of people are having diferent troubles with it.
Is there a way to get it fully working?

I have found Fedora and OpenSuse the best, though I have not been able to install Gentoo.
There seems to be installation problems with all newer Linux distros, e.g. OpenSuse 11.0 has some bug in package choosing (http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos tells how to bypass it) and I have not been able to make clean install with Fedora 8 or 9 either (I'm using 8 which I upgraded with yum from 7).

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Umm... i have The hardy heron 8.04 working quite nicely thank you. No problems. Please go to ppczone.org and dl czp's boot kernel and net installer...

Hi,
here I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 as main linux
and it works fine!
I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 then upgraded it to Ubuntu 8
with the 'updates manager' menu.


the link is:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/ubuntu-7.10-alternate-powerpc.iso

and there is this version too, but I have not tried it:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04.1/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-powerpc.iso


to install it use the imagefiles from this site:
http://genesi.hu/ubuntu/
(ubuntu_a_inst to install and ubuntu_a_boot
..to boot! ;))


bye,
Vincenzo

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 22.07.2011 - 07:09 ]

the most responsive would be Gentoo, no doubts. As it is a source-based distro you only compile what you need and build it from scratch. The kernel must be compiled too according to your hardware. The result is a highly optimised linux for your hardware.
But of course, it's not for beginners.

Ubuntu and Suse are he most user friendly, but also the heavier ones.

They are all actively developped.



[ Edited by SoundSquare on 2008/9/5 19:19 ]

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Sorry, stoopid question time, but what do you do with these files? Burn them to CD?

Has anyone written an ejiots guide to installing Linux (any, but Ubuntu preferably) on Peg2?

Hi,
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you could follow this thread:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5729&forum=9&start=0

and this one:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1406&highlight=

this is a 'must'!
http://www.efika.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=44

bye,
Vincenzo