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turbo linux?

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imported_pak9rabid

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Hey all. I recently had the pleasure of having one of my HD's go out that had Linux installed on it. My question is has anyone had any experience using Turbo Linux? The reason I'm interested in it is because I'm looking for a good distro that's 64bit and relatively easy to setup. I tried Gentoo, and although it is a very fast and efficient operating system, I really don't want to go through the tedious install again to get it up and running. I also would like to stay away from SuSe as well. I'm a big fan of slackware, and, unfortunately, they don't have an easy solution that utilizes the x86_64 instruction set yet. I'm looking for a distro that is similar to slackware in that it's bare bones and not too complex. If anyone has any ideas, lemme know.

Thanks!
 
I don't know much about Turbo Linux. And neither does most people....


I think it's quite a bit more popular in Asian countries, rather then Western ones. I beleive that much of China's governmental backbone runs Turbo Linux. In addition to that there is RedFlag which is china's "desktop" linux version they created.

There is Connectiva that is popular one from brazil, is good for Spanish/Portugese style speakers.

Most of those share a common Redhat 6.0/earlier anscestry, (like Suse/Mandrake/Fedora)....

ASP is also a fairly popular one out of Russia, but it's not based on Redhat. Probably a bit similar to Debian, but they are their own thing.

It's probably a decent enough Linux...


For 64bit distro you can take a look at Suse.. These guys are the first ones to use it and worked directly with AMD on creating a server operating system that AMD could sell its' 64bit cpus for. Also Fedora has a AMD64 version thats fairly mature.
 
kewl mang, thanks for the info. I'll prolly just stick with slackware. It runs fast enough for me. Who knows, maybe one day I'll get ballsy and decide to recompile everything (well, within reason) to use x86_64 flags. It'll be a nice learning experience. Thanks again.
 
If you use GRPs instead of compiling all the programs, you can install gentoo in pretty much the same amount of time as slackware, and still have the ability to recompile most things at a later date with the optimizations you choose.

Gentoo does not have to take long to install, unless you want it customized.
 
I've used TurboLinux quite bit, but it was some time ago, so I barely remember anything.
Back then, IMO it was clearly superior to RedHat/SuSE, had better hardware detection, and seemed to be a generally more polished distro, hence I used it alot 🙂
RPM based distro by the way.

I don't know much about it's current state though, as drag said, it's very popular in Asia, they're pretty much to Asia what RedHat is to the US, they have an enterprise product, amply called Turbolinux Enterprise Server, and a desktop product called(you guessed it) Turbolinux Desktop, current versions(AFAIK) are 8 and 10 respectively.

If you're somewhat unfamiliar with Linux, I'd rather go with SuSE since it's got a far larger user base in English speaking countries, and hence, it'll be easier to get help when you need it.
If you're looking for adventure, by all means, go with Turbolinux, like I said, I was fairly impressed last time I used it, maybe they're still doing good 🙂
 
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