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BeerSlinger:
I'm in a corner so I really could use some feedback....
Earlier I submitted a post expressing a problem with Redhat Fedora Core 4 in regard to install of codeblocks. It was suggested that I try Fedora Core 5 so I did; ten hours later I can now honestly say that it was an unmitigated disaster. So at this point I have given up and I’m willing to try other things.
Basically, the first distribution that I used of Linux was Mandrake but I dropped that over time because there were too many issues with hardware from one version to the next. Since that time I have played with Redhat, outside of that, I have tried no other distribution. Basically what I would like is simple. Most of what I want is to write C++ and PHP code. On the outside, I would like to compile and play some of the older Quake’s and few other games but the most important programs to me are:
Codeblocks
Wine (or some other windows emulator)
Quanta Plus
If someone can run all three of these programs, could someone post the distribution and version that they are currently running?
takeshimiya:
Running the 3 in Ubuntu 64 5.10.
No distro that I know comes with everything out-of-the-box for the 3 running.
You'll need to download the corresponding packages for each program (in the case of Ubuntu, you'll need to download the development tools packages).
If you want easy and simple, it's a matter of taste, but I preffer debian based systems for it's biggest collection of compiled packages and it's packaging system.
I can recommend Ubuntu, Elive (amazing), and Mepis (I have the 3, all debian based).
If, otherwise, you want to learn every piece of your linux, I can recommend Gentoo, Slackware or Debian itself.
BeerSlinger:
--- Quote from: Takeshi Miya on March 29, 2006, 02:15:51 am ---Running the 3 in Ubuntu 64 5.10.
No distro that I know comes with everything out-of-the-box for the 3 running.
You'll need to download the corresponding packages for each program (in the case of Ubuntu, you'll need to download the development tools packages).
If you want easy and simple, it's a matter of taste, but I preffer debian based systems for it's biggest collection of compiled packages and it's packaging system.
I can recommend Ubuntu, Elive (amazing), and Mepis (I have the 3, all debian based).
If, otherwise, you want to learn every piece of your linux, I can recommend Gentoo, Slackware or Debian itself.
--- End quote ---
Oh, point taken and don't get me wrong, I don't expect everything to work error free and I definately know that not everything is gonna work straight out the box. My point was that with mandrake, I had a heck of a time getting it to accept certain drives that I had. This wouldn't have been a big deal but it was my storage drive so I couldn't access any information.
Redhat has been its own ball of wax. At first I was real impressed but I tried installing RPM's and I couldn't get one to install. When i tried installing RUN files, I kept getting errors about incompatability with some part of my oporating system (I forget what it was). Finally, when I tried to run a website, I found out that http server wasen't running....but that was cool, I turned the HTTPD on and it started functioning. But when I tried some of the most basic PHP, the service wasen't running from the best that I could see because the code was ignored all together. What frustrated me was that I could find no way to verify if apache was running the service or not.
Fedora C5 just crashs and burns every time I try to install so I really don't undestand what is going on with that. It has frozen in so many places that I don't know even how to approch problemsolving.
I know that no linux is gonna be error free, but at this point, I just want one that works...
I've never tried Debian seriously, and honestly, those other versions I've never even heard of....so I will have to do some research...
takeshimiya:
As with any distro: YMMV. :P
However, I can recommend enough Ubuntu for starters:
It gained a lot of momentum, and the community is very friendly towards newbies, so it's very likely you'll find all the answers that you might come across either in the forums or the wiki.
You will find packages for all the things you've mentioned present in Ubuntu.
BeerSlinger:
--- Quote from: Takeshi Miya on March 29, 2006, 02:55:09 am ---As with any distro: YMMV. :P
However, I can recommend enough Ubuntu for starters:
It gained a lot of momentum, and the community is very friendly towards newbies, so it's very likely you'll find all the answers that you might come across either in the forums or the wiki.
You will find packages for all the things you've mentioned present in Ubuntu.
--- End quote ---
:shock:
My word!!!! Debian is HUGE.........I love it......But I am looking into the others that your talking about....
But I say, its hard telling the difference from one to the other without install, because just screeshots don't say much because Gnome is Gnome.....
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