[clue-tech] My perfect Linux ... if it exists

[David L. Willson]

NVIDIA's downloadable drivers install just great on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / Fedora 6. What graphics do you have?

Everything else (except specific statements about "not Ubuntu") seems to indicate that you're looking for Ubuntu 8.04.4 or 9.10. :-) And remember that 10.04 will get better over time. There is no 10.03 that I'm aware of.

And have you tried SUSE 10?

David L. Willson
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----- "Jason Ash" <wizardofki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As some of you know, I've tried out several GNU/Linux distributions
> over the past couple of years. Ubuntu used to be the best (IMHO)
> because of its simplicity of use, and everything just worked until
> 10.03 (then breakage). I also tried out Gentoo but I found that
> compiling took too long, took too much disk space, and cutting-edge
> packages were sometimes subject to breakage. Now that I've lost the
> need for speed, I'm looking for a very stable and quality controlled
> distribution. I'm not looking to start a heated debate on which distro
> is better than others, but I was wondering if anyone could suggest a
> distro based on the following criteria:
> 
> 1. Compiled from stable sources with little or no modification that
> are well tested to work with other packages without problems. (In
> other words, I don't mind using a 2007/2008 version of a program if it
> won't break on me).
> 2. Quality control tested with its packages on a variety of PC
> hardware
> 3. 3D acceleration available (After all, I like to play games, too).
> 4. Still somewhat easy to use without extensive manual configuration
> required.
> 
> CentOS meets criteria 1, 2, and 4, but I don't know how to get 3D
> acceleration working if its available. Enterprise/business users may
> not care about criteria 3, and I noticed that many 3D accelerated
> games (such as supertux cart) are not available even through 3rd party
> repositories. Debian may meet all 4 criteria, and I may explore it
> further in the future. Slackware meets criteria 1 and possibly 2, but
> I don't know about 3, and it's a pain in the butt to configure. The
> thing I liked about Linux from Scratch is that it definitely met
> criteria 1 and 3, possibly 2, but not 4, and compiling took forever
> and it had a steep learning curve and was difficult. I want to move
> away from distros such as ubuntu, Opensuse, and fedora that still use
> somewhat experimental and newer packages that can be subject to
> breakage or that don't play well with other packages in the distro.
> Any suggestions or input that you have about a distro that meets my
> needs is entirely welcome (just keep the debate civil).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason Ash
> 
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