Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution

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Author: James Ashburner
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution
m.nuttall@??? wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have opensuse 10.2 installed on my PC which has an athlon 3000 mobile,Nvidia
> geforce 6600GT gfx card and 2gig of ram. Suse is running a little
> unresponsive/slow so i was thinking of changing to a different flavour of linux
> but i like YAST alot so if theres an equivalent it might be interesting.
>
> Going through one of the distro chooseing questionaires Mandriva is recommended
> however is it going to be as unresponsive as Suse on my system?
>
> I would prefer to use kde which kinda rules out ubuntu unless i go for the less
> popular kubuntu.
>
> So can i have peoples thoughts on what to change to and what they use at the moment.
>
> BTW i am a novice user
>
> Martin N
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I'd recommend PCLinuxOS as a very easy distro, the control centre is
much like Yast and it's a livecd so you can play with it before installing.

James