It's only my own experience but I liked XUbuntu a lot on my netbook until I fiddled around one time too many and scragged it, so am currently installing Mint 13 xfce edition (I like xfce!) which seems to work out of the box . Much depends on your system and your personal preferences.
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Charles Doubek hartselle48@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Thanks Scott, I will look into the two that you mentioned.
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>On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 05:55:26PM -0000, Charles wrote:
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>> I've been reading a Linux newbie guide and I'm trying to decide which
>distro to use. Toward the bottom of this page
>http://tinyurl.com/a57w9ln there is a chart makes reference to
>dependency problems and in Chapter 8 the "Dependency Hell" of RPM based
>distributions is mentioned.
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>> How worried should I be about the dependency issue?
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>Not very. That really hasn't been true for years. Yum, the package
>handling tool for RedHat and some offshoots, handles things very well
>nowadays. In the old days, pre yum, one would run the command rpm -ivh
>whatever to install a package, only to have it fail because it was
>missing
>something. Then, when you searched for the missing thing, it turned
>out
>that you needed yet another rpm to install the missing rpm.
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>However, these days, almost all distributions, including those that use
>RPMs, have very good package management programs that will pull in all
>dependencies. On occasion, due to various factors, any of them might
>fail,
>but 99 percent of the time, whether one uses rpms or debs package
>installation is not a problem.
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>> I found this groups link to the Top Ten Distributions. That is a lot
>of information to digest. I know there can be no definitive answer to
>this question and I don't want to start a flame war but I would be
>interested in hearing some advice on which distribution to choose.
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>For a beginner, Ubuntu or Mint seem to be the best choices. In
>addition,
>both have pretty friendly and helpful forums.
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