What do you all think of this?

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Reminds me of Alexa for the world :)

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Alexa for the world?

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there's only one explanation, debian is starting to suck

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I like debian again now etch is out. I use it for my school laptop (used to use centos 4.4) and my LAMP server. A full Gnome desktop (tweaked out) uses only 58mb RAM of RAM on my laptop, miles better than ubuntu

However, ubuntu does own debian when it comes to a: look b: plug and play and c: media (got to love easyubuntu). Also its only 1 cd. Etch comes on 4 DVDS!. I use ubutnu onall my desktop pcs

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i'm starting to go with sled now, everything just works so well with it, but for low end machines, debian is probably the best.

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Yeah, debian or CentOS rule for old machines. Slack used to be good but 11.0 is slow IMHO and also once you try apt, you never go back.

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no offense to any one, but slack is just for really big nerds who have nothing better to do.

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It used to be good for building oses for low spec machines though (you can choose individual packages) but like i said, IMHO the current version is a bit slow.

I dislike SLED. It never played nice with my wifi card.

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In the past year, I've used ubuntu, red hat, debian, and mandriva.. Ubuntu was my favorite by a long shot, and it is the only linux distru I use today. It's just so much easier to use than the others.. Especially for linux beginners

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Yeah, i would never use it for a server though (for that i use debian etch netinstall) as its based on devel packages and uses sudo but for a desktop you cant beat it.

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for a server i'd use red hat or fedora, maybe sles

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Sles might be a bit bloated for servers as its GUI by default. Fedora is also a bit too cutting edge for my taste but RHEL/CentOS are good

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yeah, sles is geared towards enterprises and i do agree fedora is too cutting edge, i've actaully never used centos, i'm goint to try it right now.

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CentOS is Redhat Enterprise except free. Version 5 roughly = bits from Fedora 5/6 and Version 4.4 roughly = bits from Fedora 2/3

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centos could find my scsi drive in vmware, so i had to change it to ide, now it seems to be installing.

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Which version do you have, 4.4 or 5?

CentOS 3 and upwards install fine on my SCSI Compaq Proliant Server.

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version 4.3, i was installing in a virtual machine, but it works now.

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4.3?

Did you get that off thier site?

4.4 is the most stable. 5 is the newest but most people wont switch until 5.1

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I got it off my schools website. We get access to most microsoft's products like windows server enterprise, dos 6.11, exchange 2003, visio 2007, random software like that.