Its time, for me to pick a linux flavour, and get to grips with it, as I need some functionality that windows doesn't provide, NMAP, netcat, and such tools as that, so from a 1337-ish point of view, anyone more experienced with linux, care to reccomend a distro?
I'm fond of Ubuntu personally. Doesn't have the awful RPM package system. But more user-friendly than straight Debian.
I use Ubuntu as well and am very happy with it. It is very easy to upgrade packages and it integrates very well with my hardware.
I've never tried fedora, so I wouldn't know.
I've been using Ubuntu since last April, and I'm very pleased with it. It was a big pain in the rear to get my wireless card working, but otherwise I like it.
I've never tried fedora, so I wouldn't know.
I've been using Ubuntu since last April, and I'm very pleased with it. It was a big pain in the rear to get my wireless card working, but otherwise I like it.
My first linux distro was SuSE, but didn't feel like I was getting anywhere with it. Then Fedora came out in 2004. Fedora releases a new distro about every six months. Generally, I don't upgrade distro until an odd numbered distro comes out. Its not out of habit, but rather convience. On th other hand, I was a little bummed out I never decided to use Fedora 6 or as the programmers nick named it "Zod". (How many Windows or MacOS releases do you know have cool names like that?)
At any rate, I realized that GNOME was a better interface since it works so well with C, C++, and Python.
At any rate, I realized that GNOME was a better interface since it works so well with C, C++, and Python.
I could never get the hand of using GNOME--it just seems really unintuitive.
GNOME does take some getting used to, but it can be customized so that it operates much like Windows. I find it easy to use, myself.
The problem being that I think that windows is quite unintuitive as well, both from a technical/coding standpoint and from a UI standpoint(like asking you "what do you want your computer to do?" when you click the thing that says "turn off computer")
I used to use OpenSuSE, but I just recently switched to Ubuntu and realized what I was missing. By the way, Ubuntu 8.04 will be released in 14 (13 in a few hours) days!
I'm actually very new to Linux (started about four days ago), and I chose Xubuntu. It's a really lightweight version of Ubuntu, uses the Xfce interface. It's made for computers with modest hardware (i have a 10GB hard disk, 256mb or RAM, and that's about it), but anyone can run it.
Really a lot of fun if you like using the command prompt type stuff, since Xubuntu is a tad bit more reliant on commads than straight Ubuntu.
CentOS has always been my favorite.
The problem being that I think that windows is quite unintuitive as well, both from a technical/coding standpoint and from a UI standpoint(like asking you "what do you want your computer to do?" when you click the thing that says "turn off computer")
Heh, I didn't realize that. With my Linux distro (Ubuntu), I'm just given options when I click this button that looks like an on/off switch.
I'm actually very new to Linux (started about four days ago), and I chose Xubuntu. It's a really lightweight version of Ubuntu, uses the Xfce interface. It's made for computers with modest hardware (i have a 10GB hard disk, 256mb or RAM, and that's about it), but anyone can run it.
Really a lot of fun if you like using the command prompt type stuff, since Xubuntu is a tad bit more reliant on commads than straight Ubuntu.
Xubuntu sounds interesting. My family has a computer that's going on 8 years old now, and that might be the one for it. However, since it's used by more people than me, I haven't been able to install Linux on it yet.
Oh, for Ubuntu users, version 8.04 Hardy Heron is now out. I've been using it for a couple days, and so far so good. A few minor glitches, but overall it's working well.