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[RBNUBE]

What are your recommendations as far as which type(s) of Linux to use?

I thought Linux was open source, but looking around on the internet, it
seems that some are charging for their efforts. SuSE and Red Hat, for
instance.

Any suggestions or am I missing something?

Thanks!

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WinXP, 2.2 GHz, 2G RAM

[Brad Rhine]

Post by RBNUBE
What are your recommendations as far as which type(s) of Linux to use?
I thought Linux was open source, but looking around on the
internet, it
seems that some are charging for their efforts. SuSE and Red Hat, for
instance.
Any suggestions or am I missing something?

Ubuntu is a great distribution to get started with. They'll even ship
you some CDs for free.
<http://ubuntu.com>

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[Fargo Holiday]

The pay linux options you're seeing are, essentially, pay for support
style deals. Suse has its open source sister, OpenSuse, and Red Hat has
Fedora Core.
Also, remember that open source doesn't mean free by default. These are
still open source solutions.

That aside, I love Fedora Core, OpenSuse, and Ubuntu. Slackware is good
too, but in a number of ways is behind the curve. OpenSuse doesn't have
the awesome repositories, out of the box, that FC and Ubuntu do, but is
still very nice. Overall, it's hard to go dead wrong. Try a few out, see
what suits you.

Post by RBNUBE
What are your recommendations as far as which type(s) of Linux to use?
I thought Linux was open source, but looking around on the internet, it
seems that some are charging for their efforts. SuSE and Red Hat, for
instance.
Any suggestions or am I missing something?
Thanks!
RB5.5.5 and a mostly unused copy of 2006r2.
WinXP, 2.2 GHz, 2G RAM
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[RBNUBE]

Do RB applications seem more stable on one version of Linux versus another?

[RBNUBE]

I tried Ubuntu and openSuSE. openSuSE crashes at boot up quite often. I
should mention that I am not booting the computer to the Linux installs, but
using Parallels to run virtual machines. When SuSE crashes at boot up, the
whole computer crashes. Not good...

Ubuntu seems to be very stable, though there is an long period where the
screen stays blank during the booting process.

I tried a fairly simple project on Ubuntu and it locks up. Ubuntu is fine,
but the project I tried running crashes. Any ideas why?

Thanks for the input.

[Fargo Holiday]

I haven't tried them under anything other than Fedora Core, but they
seemed fine there. I also wanted to mention that my mention of Fedora
Core being the "free", as in non-supported, version of Red Hat was a
total brain fart. I meant to say Centos.

Later,
Fargo

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[RBNUBE]

Thanks Fargo. The Fedora Cora DVD download is currently at 28%...

[Fargo Holiday]

Cool, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

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Thanks Fargo. The Fedora Cora DVD download is currently at 28%...
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[RBNUBE]

Well, it seems that it crashes as much as SuSE does. Not sure how many more
crashes my system can take, so I'm leaving it at Ubuntu with Parallels.
Might get an old computer and make it a dedicated Linux machine.

Thanks for all your input!