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    Linux just for Gnome 2.6

    Can anyone recommend a distribution that can run Gnome 2.6 as easily as possible that...

    1) Isn't Fedora Core 2 (doesn't work on VMWare, my Tosh laptop or my test PC!)

    2) Isn't Gentoo (too hard to install)

    3) Isn't Debian (see 2!)

    Something like SuSE would be great... or Mandrake... but I'm stuck as to how this one can be solved easily.

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    Can I just ask: What is hard about installing Debian? I don't recall any mind bogglers. It may not have a fancy installer, but it seemed pretty simple to me.

    I do believe our very own directhex will soon be guiding us all through the process of setting it up...
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    take a look at Distrowatch down the right hand side you will see a list of distros. Or you could even take a peek at Linux ISO and download the one you want from there hope this is of some kind of help to you.

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    and package managed distro should see you fine

    fedora
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    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez
    Can I just ask: What is hard about installing Debian?
    For me, the hard part was working out whether to run software that's two years old, or a distribution that claims to be unstable.

    Neither is particularly attractive, tbh.

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    My problem with Gentoo was installing it was too hard for me!

    That said, I've found Anaconda Gentoo which marries Redhat's installer with a Stage3 Gentoo install... works great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyster
    For me, the hard part was working out whether to run software that's two years old, or a distribution that claims to be unstable.

    Neither is particularly attractive, tbh.
    Stable = Old but sturdy
    Testing = Newer and pretty solid
    Unstable = Pretty new and still pretty stable

    They wouldn't let you install it if it was really unstable. All it means is it's not been tested for long enough to be sure that everything works together perfectly.

    Maybe take the middle ground of testing, then add in any new stuff that you think you need afterwards...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez
    Stable = Old but sturdy
    Testing = Newer and pretty solid
    Unstable = Pretty new and still pretty stable

    They wouldn't let you install it if it was really unstable. All it means is it's not been tested for long enough to be sure that everything works together perfectly.

    Maybe take the middle ground of testing, then add in any new stuff that you think you need afterwards...
    My point was more that debian has an unfriendly, techie image - and it's naming conventions contribute significantly to that. You don't have to choose between an unstable Windows, and a stable one, do you?
    Admittedly that's because there isn't a stable Windows.... although there was a very unstable one (WinME)... maybe Debian did get the idea from Microsoft after all!

    Personally, I run Gentoo and most of my software is a version that won't even be making debian unstable for a few months yet!
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    I see your point Oyster. Debian is certainly a geek's OS, lol.
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    hmm, but gentoo isnt really hard to install. Granted it's not got an idiot-resistant graphical installer, but the handbook means all you have to do is coy down what they do, and it teaches a new user sososo much...

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    the UNSTABLE unstable debian distribution, whose name is not spoken in polite circles, is Experimental

    don't try and use it unless you expect things to break

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyster
    Personally, I run Gentoo and most of my software is a version that won't even be making debian unstable for a few months yet!
    Whoopy frickin doo.

    No offense meant, but the euphoria of running the latest version of some software will run out pretty soon. the crashes due to bugs won't.

    I would recommend gentoo if you're trying to learn linux, otherwise forget it. wait 4 hours to compile OO? mah, i'll apt-get it and install it within a minute, thanks.

    bear in mind that debian is designed for people who want their systems *stable*. Compared to the stability of the stable release, testing and unstable are pretty poor for this purpose. having said that, testing gives a pretty good balance between stability and features. And if you need a really recent release, just dip into unstable (which IMO is anything but, when compared to other distrobutions).
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    Quote Originally Posted by rc55
    Can anyone recommend a distribution that can run Gnome 2.6 as easily as possible that...

    1) Isn't Fedora Core 2 (doesn't work on VMWare, my Tosh laptop or my test PC!)

    2) Isn't Gentoo (too hard to install)

    3) Isn't Debian (see 2!)

    Something like SuSE would be great... or Mandrake... but I'm stuck as to how this one can be solved easily.

    Ruairi
    sorry for the troll, but why do you want gnome 2.6 anyway? its my oppinion that if you don't know the answer to your question, then you probably dont know enough to make an informed option to go with gnome2.6 over kde3.3.

    the latter is so much more featureful, has a solid codebase, decent interfacing between applications. Indeed the only reason i can think of for wanting gnome is the eye candy, and kde-look solves this problem altogether!
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    If you want something easy to install the you should install mandrake. Although I don't know how easy gnome 2.6 is running in it. Well, otherwise if you want some challenging then you could use Slackware (9.0) and run gnome. I run gnome, in slack, but I don't have the 2.6 version though cos I've got an old slackware dist. But if you run Slackware 9.0 then it'll be great I think.

    The challenging about Slack isn't the installing part, it's more the package area, cos if you download a program and want to install it, you might be missing something, a file or similar..and then you have to find a place to download it, yourself. So Gentoo is better when it comes to that! If you're missing a file (and using gentoo) then it will just say: You're missing this file , do you want to download it?

    Good Luck mate!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moonshade
    If you want something easy to install the you should install mandrake. Although I don't know how easy gnome 2.6 is running in it. Well, otherwise if you want some challenging then you could use Slackware (9.0) and run gnome. I run gnome, in slack, but I don't have the 2.6 version though cos I've got an old slackware dist. But if you run Slackware 9.0 then it'll be great I think.

    The challenging about Slack isn't the installing part, it's more the package area, cos if you download a program and want to install it, you might be missing something, a file or similar..and then you have to find a place to download it, yourself. So Gentoo is better when it comes to that! If you're missing a file (and using gentoo) then it will just say: You're missing this file , do you want to download it?

    Good Luck mate!
    tbh i don't agree with this at all.

    Slackware doesn't have package management out of the box, but this can easily be added with Swaret.

    And recommending gentoo *just* because it has package management is just silly. So does Debian. So does freeBSD. So does a hell of a lot of other distributions.

    My recommendation is to go with debian. Though thats my oppinion.
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