Saturday, May 2, 2009

Choosing A Distro

Choosing a Linux distro... where to start?

You could check out the Tux Radar article, "How to choose the best Linux distro for you." This article provides a good overview of some popular distros, and some tips on how to find which one might suit you best. Be sure to look at the readers' comments following the article for additional points of view from folks who are using some of these, and other, distros.

Of course, another good place to go is DistroWatch. The DistroWatch Page Hit Rankings aren't necessarily a measure of the popularity of the listed distros, but it can give you a good idea of what's out there. And clicking on any of the names in that list takes you to a nice information page describing that distro. You'll find a listing of packages that are included in the distro, and links to reviews and to each distro's home page and user forums. Very useful stuff.

In addition, here are a couple of polishlinux.org pages that you might find helpful:

http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/

http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/

The Wikipedia article "Comparison of Linux distributions" is also worth taking a look at.

And, as always, it never hurts to do a few Google searches.

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