[olug] Distro Thoughts

[Dave Thacker]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06:23, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> I've used SUSE 9.1 and 9.3 Professional before BUT
> found adding RPMs (and MAINLY their dependencies) to
> be a pain.
>
> I've been using Ubuntu and Kubuntu 5.10 but can't
> access floppies or other external media (hard drives).
> I'd stay with Kubuntu if all users could access the
> drives and I could get media players to work in it.
> (See other post "Re:  Kubuntu and accessing floppy and
> external drives" posted on February 14, 2006).

I ran across this yesterday.  Have not tried it myself.  It's supposed to 
"finish" off an Ubuntu installation.  

http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=868
>
> I tried DSL Linux and liked some aspects of that....
>

>
> What distro would work best (in your opinion NO wars
> please) for me?
>
I've heard good things about PCLinuxOS. (apt based!)
http://www.pclinuxos.com/

But again, I haven't tried it and YMMV. 

Dave