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Which Distro Is Right For Me?

Started by raw , Jan 12 2006 08:43 PM

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#31 tekchallenged

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Posted 05 May 2007 - 12:50 AM

I got:

Wonder how you have to answer the questions in order to have Freespire be one of the recommendations?

I just did it and Freespire came up, but I said (differently to what Monster_User said) I didn't care what installation type and didn't need a whole lot of software - otherwise what Monster said.

Feel free to assume that I won't know what you are talking about...

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#32 joe883

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Posted 03 June 2007 - 08:40 PM

I have 2.16 Puppy and have tried it...like you said, Lot's of fun, but are you saying that I can play it from the CD and Store that information, turn the computer off, re-boot without the CD into Windows, and if I like, go back to the puppy CD and have the changes I made to that program in a folder so I would be able to save favorites etc.?

Edited by groovicus, 27 June 2007 - 10:35 PM.

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#33 joe883

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Posted 27 June 2007 - 07:41 PM

Eureka....yes you can save bookmards, etc. without an inatallation...just using the live CD. I made several changes and then just did a re-master of the original CD and it's now up-dated anytime I want to use it...I don't know of another Live CD that you can do that with...what a wonderful feature.
Let's go Puppy.

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Posted 27 June 2007 - 09:39 PM

Yep, you can. When the CD is full or you have written your 99 sector Puppy will prompt you for a fresh CD. It will burn all of you information to the new CD, allowing you to make 99 more writes before creating a new CD. Actually if you have a DVD player it is like having Windows 95 (The size not the capabilities) on a 8 gb hard drive.
Puppy using either a NTFS or FAT32 partition can copy windows files if you needed a utility to transfer files from a crashed windows install.

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#35 Glunn11

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Posted 16 July 2007 - 03:44 PM

Kubuntu and Ubuntu, in that order, but I prefer GNOME to KDE.
Pretty accurate :thumbsup:

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Posted 23 November 2007 - 11:00 PM

I got these recommended as perfect matches:
Ubuntu
Mandriva
OpenSuSE
Kubuntu

Which is good because i'm getting Ubuntu :thumbsup:

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 02:07 AM

1. Open suse
2.Ubuntu

Already using ubuntu might try suse

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Posted 15 January 2008 - 12:59 PM

Quiz pulled up my two of my favorite Distributions.

1. Mandriva
2. Fedora
and suse

I haven't tried Suse but the quiz is right about Mandriva and Fedora so I might try suse next.

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 07:59 PM

The quiz pulled up the distro I use as #1, PCLOS, with my second choice, Mepis, in 5th place. I've tried all the others that came up and I did not like them as well and I do not like any of the Ubuntu versions I've tried.

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#40 yano

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Posted 18 February 2008 - 12:58 AM

I've been using Ubuntu now for about 9 months now and I love it. I took the quiz to get an idea of what similar types of OSes are there to it. I just got stuck with Ubuntu and Debian for the results. Go figure :thumbsup:

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 09:01 AM

Your Test is dead on I run Ubuntu and have been since Breezy, it said that I should be using Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Debian.
Good jkob :flowers:

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Posted 04 April 2008 - 10:25 PM

Prefect:
1.Debian
2.Suse
3.Fedora
4.Mandriva
5.Ubuntu
Other:
6.Kubuntu

I've been using ubuntu for sometime, but I've also been thinking about trying debian.

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#43 zedsed420

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Posted 11 April 2008 - 03:20 AM

I took the test amidst 2 friends arguing their cases for ubuntu and Suse. I chose Kubuntu. However after I installed it i cant seem to surf the web. Not sure but I think it has something to do with either my network settings or my tp-link wireless adapter card. Can anyone help me figure this out? I am a seasoned vetran with windows but a complete noob with linux.

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 04:51 AM

I got matched with Freespire, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. I have the Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.4 discs. I've been putting off their installation for too long. I think the test is a sign that I should finally embrace Linux.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 11:01 AM

Puppy 4.00 on a DVD-R the iso burned in windows using BurnCDcc prog worked very well for me.
Now I have a "frugal" install that needs no partitioning at all. Lin'nWin describe how one do it.
http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm

the good thing is that the DVd can be set to do multisession so it saves on DVD
and reuse that info next time. Very handy. Program is less than 100MB big.

Even I who are very clumsy with sorftware and hardware managed to use it .
so it is a good way to learn linux. Their forum is great.