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Lifer
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Looking for a nice (I :heart: the eye candy) developing/learning environment to dual boot with Windows. I was looking more towards using GNOME on it. Any ideas?

Athlon XP 2500+
786MB
Some Mediocre Videocard



Much thanks :)
 
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zbalat

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Oct 9, 1999
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I'm dual booting XP with Suse 10.0 and after following This guide everything works like a charm. Even though the article is written for KDE I followed it (I use Gnome) and everything works nicely. Give it a try.
 
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SleepWalkerX

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Suse 10.0 is a great distro! Unfortunately I hate the way you have to add respositories and Yast is kinda slow. Get Ubuntu.
 
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AmigaMan

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
The same thing I told the last half dozen dweebs asking this stupid question.
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lol, your wheaties a little soggy this morning?

as to the OP, I recommend Ubuntu.
 
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n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
The same thing I told the last half dozen dweebs asking this stupid question.
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lol, your wheaties a little soggy this morning?

as to the OP, I recommend Ubuntu.
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There are 3 "which distro" type threads on the FRONT PAGE.
 
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TonyRic

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n0c, makes me wonder if they are truly in need of the information or if they are jsut asking to see who they can get a rise out of. lol
 
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brxndxn

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I like Ubuntu..

Though, it seems Ubuntu doesn't have as much 'eye-candy' installed as other distros I've tried (Suse, Mandrake).. But, you can install all that eyecandy easily in Ubuntu. Ubuntu rocks.
 
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Seeruk

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Wow noc :) Who rattled your cage?? :D

www.distrowatch.com is about the only answer we need to give I reckon :)

But then different people want different things from their distro.... perhaps we can have one giant sticky for it at the top and delete all others :)
 
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corinthos

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Mar 22, 2000
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because you mentioned GNOME, I'll recommend UBUNTU... you'll have a working GNOME Linux Desktop without much work.

Here's a note that might come in handy for some of you... when I was test driving Ubuntu (both regular install and live cd) I ran into a problem where upon bootup after install I logged into the GNOME desktop and my mouse could move but the keyboard was dead. At first I thought it was a keyboard problem, but it turned out to be a video driver issue. The problem was fixed by dropping to commandline during bootup and then editing a config file and changing the video setting to "vesa" and rebooting. Hopefully this helps someone else who has experienced this problem. I am not sure, but I think it is a problem for some NVIDIA video cards (I have a 6200)...

 
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DasFox

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AFB, Distrowatch ---> http://distrowatch.com/ ---> "Distribution Rankings", on the right side, Ubuntu is at the top start there, then work your way down and play with other distros, there are so many of them, the ONLY way to find what's you is to PLAY. Nobody knows you but you and there are many Distros to choose from that have different bells and whistles.

Now GO PLAY! :)
 
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