Ubuntu

[Shimano105]

Knocks Vista into a c-ocked hat. Wireless is a pain though.

[Churchill]

Knocks Vista into a c-ocked hat. Wireless is a pain though.

It's about as useful as your contribution to this forum then, eh?

Linux, worth every penny you pay for it!

[threaded]

Knocks Vista into a c-ocked hat. Wireless is a pain though.

Ubuntu: isn't that an ancient Swahili word for "can't install Gentoo"?

[administrator]

This server runs on Ubuntu, very stable so far and been on this box for a while now having moved from Redhat. I use Ubuntu on Laptop as well as wireless was fine to set up and use for me. Had a real pain with dual screen set up on work machine a couple of months ago though. Ubuntu is not far off being as user friendly to set up as Windows. Wiped Vista off the laptop to use Ubuntu.

[Ardesco]

Debian Etch is the way to go. I fiddled about with Ubuntu but it didn't like something on the machine I installed it on.

Ubuntu is based on Debian anyway but the Debian crew are slightly more fixated on stability


Quick command for you Administrator:

apt-get moo

just proves that Debian based distro's are the best

[scooterscot]

Knocks Vista into a c-ocked hat. Wireless is a pain though.

I installed Ubuntu on my vaio, fantastic. Moving between desktops very easy and practical. Add a bit of eye candy and the display even wobbles...

Ubuntu on youtube... check it...

[Cliphead]

Got a mix of Ubuntu, Centos and Sun boxes here. One Windows XP box for nostalgia value and latterly a PC running OS X. Things would be grief free except for still having Windows around.

[DimPrawn]

The future is LINUX (with SAP running on it).

HTH

[Addanc]

If wireless chipset not supported directly checkout ndiswrapper which allows the use of the Windows drivers.

[Sockpuppet]

just proves that Debian based distro's are the best

Not a fan really. I've tried Debina and I went back to FreeBSD. It just seems to make more sense really. The ports system by far outweights the apt-get stuff.