Interesting. It suggested four flavours of Linux for me. One was Debian, which I tried, hit a major issue with X not working and gave up on. Another was OpenSuSE, and I've previously used SuSE but didn't like YaST. Third was Fedora which I've never tried, and the fourth was Ubuntu, which is what I use. Narrowing the choices down from several million to four sensible suggestions is quite impressive for two minutes of effort. Hugs, Jen _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

On 24/04/07, Jen Phillips <jetlaglug(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: Interesting. It suggested four flavours of Linux for me. One was > Debian, which I tried, hit a major issue with X not working and gave > up on. Another was OpenSuSE, and I've previously used SuSE but didn't > like YaST. Third was Fedora which I've never tried, and the fourth was > Ubuntu, which is what I use. > > Narrowing the choices down from several million to four sensible > suggestions is quite impressive for two minutes of effort. I thought so too. To be fair its not as good as it could be the list of distro's is not comprehensive by anyones standards however please feel free to mail them with your selections to be added. As has already been mentioned to me Ubuntu and its derivatives pops up every time regardless of how you answer which IMO is a little dubiuos plus of course I'm not sure what their scoring policy is e.g 10 points for being a numptey = Ubuntu :-) -- Regards Dick Turpin "There is every excuse for not knowing There is no excuse for not asking!" _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

Hmmm, Fedora came up tops for me....which I don't actually like. But, that's more because I never liked Red Hat simply because I could never get it working.

I have every intention of actually giving it a try....once I get chance. I'm v.busy at the moment building myself a new workbench and I don't have much room even in my super duper massive workshop :-) Once I have the room to have 3 or 4 PC's running on this new bench - with room to actually work on them too - I will try out whichever is the latest version. For now I'm sticking with SuSE 10.2 on the one PC that does have Linux loaded on it. I put SuSE on it because it's nice and easy to set it up with all the naughty extra stuff like libdvdcss etc and the various flash bits and pieces.