The most functional GNU/Linux distribution is defintely Ubuntu Linux, however the most beautiful is Linux Mint and its Cinnamon GUI. Plus free is better than $200

=)

Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for all the programmers who have given of their time to the open-source freedom-ware operating systems available.

Best regards,
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Re: The Best Operating System in the World :)
By: warmfuzzy to All on Fri Nov 24 2017 03:19:02

The most functional GNU/Linux distribution is defintely Ubuntu Linux, however the most beautiful is Linux Mint and its Cinnamon GUI. Plus free is better than $200

I must agree with you there, I ended up moving from Ubuntu then Debian, and I am now with Mint and enjoy it very much.

It has done all I need it to do without much frustration.

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On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:36:04 -0500, "Tim Smith" <tim.smith@57:57/1>
wrote:

Re: The Best Operating System in the World :)
By: warmfuzzy to All on Fri Nov 24 2017 03:19:02

The most functional GNU/Linux distribution is defintely Ubuntu Linux, however the most beautiful is Linux Mint and its Cinnamon GUI. Plus free is better than $200

I must agree with you there, I ended up moving from Ubuntu then Debian, and I >am now with Mint and enjoy it very much.

It has done all I need it to do without much frustration.

I've always been an RPM type of guy myself....at least once I left
Slackware 1.2.13 behind and then ditched NetBSD after trying that out.
I went on to Mandrake/Mandriva and really liked it. I liked their
urpmi and related tools. After it was evident businesses were going
towards RHEL I made the switch personally to CentOS. The only box I
have running Ubuntu right now is my Synchronet BBS box, it just
compiled pretty cleanly with few changes.

I still don't like all the different commands you have to keep in mind
for package management. apt-? dpkg? Though I guess that is similar to
yum and rpm except you don't have to guess what comes after apt-...
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Re: Re: The Best Operating System in the World :)
By: Nigel Reed to Tim Smith on Sun Nov 26 2017 09:15:49

I've always been an RPM type of guy myself....at least once I left
Slackware 1.2.13 behind and then ditched NetBSD after trying that out.
I went on to Mandrake/Mandriva and really liked it. I liked their
urpmi and related tools. After it was evident businesses were going
towards RHEL I made the switch personally to CentOS. The only box I
have running Ubuntu right now is my Synchronet BBS box, it just
compiled pretty cleanly with few changes.

I've tried various different distros when I started to use Linux back in the late 90's/start of the 2000's. Red Hat Linux (before the split to RHEL and Fedora) is what sold me to RPMs.

I still don't like all the different commands you have to keep in mind
for package management. apt-? dpkg? Though I guess that is similar to
yum and rpm except you don't have to guess what comes after apt-...

Wasn't yum either renamed or replaced recently?

Either way, yum's commands are easier than apt-get. Yum is also easier than pacman, I will agree to that.

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On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 18:26:59 -0500, "J Adam Gosselin"
<j.adam.gosselin@57:57/1> wrote:

Wasn't yum either renamed or replaced recently?

Not that I know of. Maybe in Fedora but I don't keep up with that. In
RHEL 7.4 yum is still yum.
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Re: Re: The Best Operating System in the World :)
By: Nigel Reed to Tim Smith on Sun Nov 26 2017 09:15:49

I must agree with you there, I ended up moving from Ubuntu then Debian,
and I am now with Mint and enjoy it very much.

I've always been an RPM type of guy myself....at least once I left Slackware 1.2.13 behind and then ditched NetBSD after trying that out.
I went on to Mandrake/Mandriva and really liked it. I liked their

I've never really tried Redhat, But started with Slackware, Zipslack to be exact, then went full fledged slackware, then to FreeBSD, which I still do like, even though I haven't seen it iin years.. loved it many years ago.

towards RHEL I made the switch personally to CentOS. The only box I
have running Ubuntu right now is my Synchronet BBS box, it just
compiled pretty cleanly with few changes.

It's weird, Ubuntu seems to not like the hardware on my Dell computer, and Debian had a few too many issues when trying to run the BBS, even though Rob builds all his builds on Debian, But for me Mint has just done the job..

I usually just use apt, or synaptic and the software manager that comes with cinnamon, and there are never any issues, everything stays clean, all dependencies are always taken care of, and I've never had them fight with each other and screw my system over (my main issue in debian). So strange since all 3 of these are pretty much just debian I presume..

I still don't like all the different commands you have to keep in mind
for package management. apt-? dpkg? Though I guess that is similar to
yum and rpm except you don't have to guess what comes after apt-...

apt is very easy, I'd rather use it over searching for crap in gui package managers, and really dont need to remember too many commands sometimes it wil throw you for a loop when updating the system or something, but it pretty much explains to you what needs to be done.

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