Official NBR Linux Team Thread

[Calvin]

Well that is a terminally incorrect term Rob, i guess if i wanted to be literal i could have said "If you've tried one distro you're already familiar with many." Which would ruin the effect. =] Looking into Debian and OpenSUSE too right now.

[scooberdoober]

Debian is a great distro, but it will take some customizing to get full functionality out of it; codecs, etc. Since you're using a desktop PC, compatibility will not likely be an issue, unless you have AMD or VIA chipsets, which can be a pain sometimes. I really like Mepis a lot, it's a great Debian based distro that uses the KDE DE, which is my favorite.

[pixelot]

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[bmwrob]

My post, in hindsight, seems sarcastic, Calvin. Sorry. I didn't mean it to be a smarta$$ remark. Actually, when I tried Gentoo and then Arch, I discovered that my IQ was way too low to consider using either. lol Slackware wouldn't install the first couple of times I tried, and the last time I tried to triple-boot Linux/Linux/Linux, I managed to wipe out everything except Fedora. I'm hopeless.

[scooberdoober]

Don't feel bad Rob, those are probably the most difficult distros to install and set up. If you keep on using Linux, I'm sure you will eventually be able to work with them.

[Calvin]

Debian is a great distro, but it will take some customizing to get full functionality out of it; codecs, etc. Since you're using a desktop PC, compatibility will not likely be an issue, unless you have AMD or VIA chipsets, which can be a pain sometimes. I really like Mepis a lot, it's a great Debian based distro that uses the KDE DE, which is my favorite.

I'll be loading them using this one which is AMD, but i'll be booting them through VM as much as possible.

[scooberdoober]

Cool, let us know how it goes.

[Patrick]

Pshh, its all about LSF! THAT is a pain to set up!

[scooberdoober]

Or better yet try LFS!

[Calvin]

So yeah, the VM idea wasn't working so i said "**** it" and now i'm downloading the 5 distro's i wanted to download and try to burn them on CD's to play with on my computer. It's odd, every time i get fed up and say "**** it" a new door of fun opens up for me. I like the way Linux works.