[pm-h] Houston Digest, Vol 134, Issue 6

Thu Jan 7 12:35:07 PST 2016

I have been happy with Mint 17.1 (I use Mate -- Mah teh).  I was using
Ubuntu before but wasn't happy with the direction they went with their user
interface.  Of course these days, the distro mainly affects how the user
interface works.  At one point I was using Mint at home and Fedora at
work.  The GUI's were different and it took a while to get used to Fedora
and never really favored it.  A couple of years ago, on another computer at
home I installed Fedora but decided to change the GUI to something with a
lot of glitz.  If you have a life, this is probably not a good idea because
you can spend ages tweaking the interface to your liking.  Henceforth I've
always mostly stuck with the default GUI.  When I searched for my most
recent distro, Mint, I made sure to study the screenshots carefully before
settling.

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>    1. Re: Linux Distribution Selection (Perl Developer)
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:35:30 -0500
> From: Perl Developer <perl at saltbreez.com>
> To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> Subject: Re: [pm-h] Linux Distribution Selection
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> I always buy from Dell, I always install Slackware 64
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Mike Flannigan via Houston
> <houston at pm.org> wrote:
> >
> > I plan to buy a computer and install nothing but
> > Linux on it.  I will use it for Perl processing of
> > text files, GIS (mapping), and simple things (e-mail,
> > browsing, FTP, etc).  I want to be able to Remote
> > Desktop into Windows machines, and I want to be able
> > to remote into my new Linux machine from Windows.
> > Stability and speed are important, but not super
> > important.  This will be one of about 4 computers
> > on a wired network.  No servers to speak of.
> >
> > I value your opinion on which distro to select.  I
> > am favoring Ubuntu or OpenSuse, but am open to any.
> > I have Ubuntu installed on one of my machines.  I'm
> > not crazy about it, but I do like the wide selection
> > of software and easy installation of the software.
> >
> > Probably the most important thing to me is being able
> > to find/obtain support.  I'm probably not going to pay
> > for the support, but that is an option too.
> >
> > If you would rather comment on what hardware to buy instead
> > of what distro to use, I welcome that info also.  I will
> > probably buy a high dollar graphics card.  Other than that I
> > will buy what the computer store (Fry's) tells me to buy.
> >
> > When I read things like this:
> >
> https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/810295-the-top-11-best-linux-distros-for-2015/
> > I tend towards OpenSuse.
> >
> > One word answers are welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > 281-286-6869
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:47:53 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> Subject: Re: [pm-h] Linux Distribution Selection
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> I pretty much gave up on Linux as a desktop and use OS X as my primary
> operating system and run (Fedora) Linux out of vagrant and VirtualBox
> "headless" via ssh session(s). ?Back when I used desktop Linux (about 3-4
> years ago I guess, now) I used Mint. Seems nice.
>
> Mark
>
>     On Thursday, January 7, 2016 9:10 AM, Julian Brown via Houston <
> houston at pm.org> wrote:
>
>
>  I use Mint as well.? Mint 17.3 came out recently should be what most
> people expect. ? ?Ubuntu with their UI is almost unusable for me.
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:24 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston <
> houston at pm.org> wrote:
>
> Good for you. I moved to Linux for my desktop years ago and have mostly
> been happy.
>
> In recent years, I've been using Mint. It's basically a set of
> modifications on Ubuntu, which is a packaged version of Debian. I've
> been pretty happy with it.
>
> You can mostly use any help that applies to Ubuntu on Mint problems.
> Any "Ubuntu-specific" packages work on Mint as well.
>
> G. Wade
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:37:01 -0600
> Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I plan to buy a computer and install nothing but
> > Linux on it.? I will use it for Perl processing of
> > text files, GIS (mapping), and simple things (e-mail,
> > browsing, FTP, etc).? I want to be able to Remote
> > Desktop into Windows machines, and I want to be able
> > to remote into my new Linux machine from Windows.
> > Stability and speed are important, but not super
> > important.? This will be one of about 4 computers
> > on a wired network.? No servers to speak of.
> >
> > I value your opinion on which distro to select.? I
> > am favoring Ubuntu or OpenSuse, but am open to any.
> > I have Ubuntu installed on one of my machines.? I'm
> > not crazy about it, but I do like the wide selection
> > of software and easy installation of the software.
> >
> > Probably the most important thing to me is being able
> > to find/obtain support.? I'm probably not going to pay
> > for the support, but that is an option too.
> >
> > If you would rather comment on what hardware to buy instead
> > of what distro to use, I welcome that info also.? I will
> > probably buy a high dollar graphics card.? Other than that I
> > will buy what the computer store (Fry's) tells me to buy.
> >
> > When I read things like this:
> >
> https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/810295-the-top-11-best-linux-distros-for-2015/
> > I tend towards OpenSuse.
> >
> > One word answers are welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > 281-286-6869
> >
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:45:21 -0600
> From: houstonperl at skagitattic.com
> To: Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org>
> Subject: Re: [pm-h] Linux Distribution Selection
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> Debian all the way.
>
> It does not come with any of the extra magic that Ubuntu does and is
> very stable.  Large user community and you can often take information
> from offshoots like ubuntu and mint with very little if any changes.
>
> I use xtightvncviewer for viewing vnc sessions.  You can start a vnc
> server with x11vnc or just ssh in from Windows.
>
> If you are considering all the offshoots why not go to the source?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:37:01 -0600
> Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I plan to buy a computer and install nothing but
> > Linux on it.  I will use it for Perl processing of
> > text files, GIS (mapping), and simple things (e-mail,
> > browsing, FTP, etc).  I want to be able to Remote
> > Desktop into Windows machines, and I want to be able
> > to remote into my new Linux machine from Windows.
> > Stability and speed are important, but not super
> > important.  This will be one of about 4 computers
> > on a wired network.  No servers to speak of.
> >
> > I value your opinion on which distro to select.  I
> > am favoring Ubuntu or OpenSuse, but am open to any.
> > I have Ubuntu installed on one of my machines.  I'm
> > not crazy about it, but I do like the wide selection
> > of software and easy installation of the software.
> >
> > Probably the most important thing to me is being able
> > to find/obtain support.  I'm probably not going to pay
> > for the support, but that is an option too.
> >
> > If you would rather comment on what hardware to buy instead
> > of what distro to use, I welcome that info also.  I will
> > probably buy a high dollar graphics card.  Other than that I
> > will buy what the computer store (Fry's) tells me to buy.
> >
> > When I read things like this:
> >
> https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/810295-the-top-11-best-linux-distros-for-2015/
> > I tend towards OpenSuse.
> >
> > One word answers are welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > 281-286-6869
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Website: http://houston.pm.org/
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