[penguicon-general] Anyone want to help bring me back to the Linux fold?

[Wolfger]

Anybody tried Freespire yet? This sounds like exactly what is wanted here.
http://freespire.org/

On 2/15/07, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tested out the major distros over the past two months.  Ubuntu isn't
> perfect but it has the most going for it currently.
>
> Fedora Core 6:  Lots of packages available but the package manager is
> primitive and slow.  Networking has lots of problems.
>
> Mandriva 2007:  Many games and educational packages available but the
> package manager is garbage.  It obviously wasn't ready to be released.
> Very good third-party support (EasyURPMI, PLF, and SeerOfSouls in
> particular).  Very good installer with one of the easiest partition
> managers available.  Very good administration tools.
>
> SuSE 10.2:  Package selection probably adequate for business but not
> for home desktop.  Very few third-party repos and adding them in Yast
> is a pain.  The recent agreement with M$ isn't going to improve
> package selection anytime soon.  Administration tools are very good.
>
> Ubuntu "Edgy Eft" 6.10:  Very good package selection but many packages
> in the Debian repos have not been updated to the freedesktop.org menu
> entry standard so they don't show up in the menus when you add them.
> A menu hack for the Debian menus is available but it's ugly.
> Automatix is a good meta-package installer that makes adding large
> groups of packages easier.  It can install the Debian menu hack and
> closed-source stuff like Nvidia drivers, Picasa, and Skype.  There
> have been problems with updates including a missing kernel image this
> week which caused a lot of problems for me.
>
> For desktop environments I recommend Gnome.  Ubuntu's Gnome theme is
> the best.  KDE is comprehensive but complicated and has a cluttered
> look to it.  Mandriva's KDE layout and default theme is better than
> Kubuntu.  XFCE doesn't offer a lot feature-wise but it much faster on
> old systems.  I've only used it on Xubuntu.
>
> 3D desktop support (Beryl and Compiz) isn't quite ready on any distro
> yet.  Neither supports dual-head (multiple desktop) setups.
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