Help Picking a Linux Imp

Lord Of The Ming · 08-21-2006, 03:15 AM

I have a old Gateway All-in-one that I will be using as a MP3/OGG player, hooked up to my sound system, and i was planning on using Linux as the OS. I will only use it to run a media player, and perhaps openoffice and some basic (ie. solitare) games. I was looking at using either SUSE or Fedora, but I wanted some advise as to what would be easy to install and use. I would need to install using CDs, as I don't have a DVD-ROM drive in this comp.

Thanks in advance.

Mings

Motoxrdude · 08-21-2006, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Of The Ming

I have a old Gateway All-in-one that I will be using as a MP3/OGG player, hooked up to my sound system, and i was planning on using Linux as the OS. I will only use it to run a media player, and perhaps openoffice and some basic (ie. solitare) games. I was looking at using either SUSE or Fedora, but I wanted some advise as to what would be easy to install and use. I would need to install using CDs, as I don't have a DVD-ROM drive in this comp.

Thanks in advance.

Mings

I would suggest fedora or ubuntu. Ubuntu and fedora are by far the easiest distros to use.

timothyb89 · 08-21-2006, 05:52 AM

Have you ever used any other distro? Ubuntu has nothing in it's download repositories...
No GCC++ and OpenOffice isn't in the download repositories. Both SUSE and FC5 have OpenOffice available. I haven't taked the time to open up my FC5 install recently, so I'm not sure.
I was pretty much intending it for a server system, anyway.
But, SUSE has known audio issues. I have to run alsaconf every time I boot. It's that and the fact that FC5 doesn't play anything (and I mean it).

For your needs I reccomend PCLinuxOS. It's a 700 MB Live CD with an great installer with OpenOffice, and almost too many working OGG/MP3/Anything else players.
It even has the VLC media player. It's smaller and it works.

08-21-2006, 03:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lord Of The Ming Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 259	Help Picking a Linux Imp I have a old Gateway All-in-one that I will be using as a MP3/OGG player, hooked up to my sound system, and i was planning on using Linux as the OS. I will only use it to run a media player, and perhaps openoffice and some basic (ie. solitare) games. I was looking at using either SUSE or Fedora, but I wanted some advise as to what would be easy to install and use. I would need to install using CDs, as I don't have a DVD-ROM drive in this comp. Thanks in advance. Mings

08-21-2006, 05:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
timothyb89 Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 357	Have you ever used any other distro? Ubuntu has nothing in it's download repositories... No GCC++ and OpenOffice isn't in the download repositories. Both SUSE and FC5 have OpenOffice available. I haven't taked the time to open up my FC5 install recently, so I'm not sure. I was pretty much intending it for a server system, anyway. But, SUSE has known audio issues. I have to run alsaconf every time I boot. It's that and the fact that FC5 doesn't play anything (and I mean it). For your needs I reccomend PCLinuxOS. It's a 700 MB Live CD with an great installer with OpenOffice, and almost too many working OGG/MP3/Anything else players. It even has the VLC media player. It's smaller and it works. __________________ And now that I'm running my life support equipment through Windows 95, I'll never have to worry about - beeeeeeeep... Registered Linux User #425668 Registered Linux Machine #333299

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