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Title: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Pleasexplain on January 05, 2005, 10:01:31 PM

This could spark WWIII  :]
Which Distro is recommended for aMule??
I currently use eMule / Windows (tongue bitten in advance  :D)
I have tinkered with Linux over the years but never really 'stuck' with it. Have been thinking about setting up a router/firewall linux box -> thinking about using same for P2P.
I have on hand Mandrake 9, Redhat 7.2, Knoppix 3.3, Morphix, etc. earlier vers. (etc)
I see from another thread a lot of you use Gentoo which I haven't seen yet.

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Kry on January 05, 2005, 10:03:59 PM

Debian SID.

I'm locking the thread.


j/k (about the thread)

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Xaignar on January 05, 2005, 10:05:21 PM

Gentoo is a nice distro (I run it myself), but IMHO it's only a good choice if you are the kind that likes to tinker ... On the other hand, the university I'm attending is using Gentoo. ;)

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Pleasexplain on January 05, 2005, 11:56:13 PM

Thanks kry. (smiling asassin gnome avatar)  :]
Is that more stable than xp that just crashed on me?

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Kry on January 06, 2005, 12:03:53 AM

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Use Windows ME, it's very good and stable!!1 Linux is waaay to difficult to use anyway!

ROFL!!! It was Xaignar playing with the 'Edit post' feature of the board :P

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Pleasexplain on January 07, 2005, 06:17:38 AM

Am downloading Gentoo to have a look. (whats .torrent mean?  :])

(edit)
To be fair my Windows crash appeared to be bad CPU heatsinking.  :D

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: GhePeU on January 07, 2005, 11:07:01 AM

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Originally posted by Pleasexplain
Am downloading Gentoo to have a look. (whats .torrent mean?  :])

(edit)
To be fair my Windows crash appeared to be bad CPU heatsinking.  :D

I use gentoo since august 2003, but I think that you should try with another distro, unless you choose to switch to linux as your first os

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: thepolish on January 07, 2005, 02:39:39 PM

Hi,

Recommended distro for aMule? All...

aMule should be installed on every distro as standard package like vi !!!

Seriously, depending on your Linux level, Genntoo is not really for beginners, Suse and Mandrake are, Debian is Debian :)

Thats the problem with democraty, choosing needs brain use, windows choice doesnt :D

Thepolish

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: Pleasexplain on January 08, 2005, 08:49:38 AM

Hi thepolish

Quote from: thepolish

Seriously, depending on your Linux level, Genntoo is not really for beginners,

I'll take that as a challenge then...  :P
.... besides magazine has arrived wih Fedora 3 (last tried RH 7.2) on it as a backup!!  :]

Great thing about Linux - won't cost much $$$$ either way.

Title: Re: Recommend a Distro
Post by: deltaHF on January 08, 2005, 08:53:07 AM

SuSE 9.2 is available since today as DVD/CD iso
you can dl it via ftp.suse.com or some mirrors

cheers