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Já que tantos perguntam: "Que distro instalar".. Vou deixar aqui um artigo que achei interessante da TUX deste mes:
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
citação:One of the most popular questions I get is,
“Which distribution should I use?” The answer
is similar to the one for the question, “Which car
should I buy?” That is, the right answer depends
on what you want to do with it. For example,
a car with a manual transmission is always the
right answer for me, but it may not be the right
answer for someone else.
With that disclaimer out of the way, I recently
have been telling people an almost generic answer:
Kubuntu Dapper Drake. Why? Because it is easy to
install, easy to update, complete, reliable and
totally free, all the way down to being able to
get a CD or DVD mailed to you. That doesn’t
necessarily make it the best choice for everyone,
but it certainly has decreased the amount of free
consulting I have been doing.
In order to support my opinion, I do at least
need to know about the competition. All the
competition? Well, it would be nice, but that just
doesn’t fit into my life. There are lots of choices,
and unlike car models, they can change significantly
every few months. So, let’s wait for our
next Linux Smackdown issue for a broader analysis.
For the moment, I am going to take a brief
look at some of the free alternatives to my ongoing
Kubuntu Dapper Drake answer.
First, let’s take a quick look at Edgy Eft, the next
Kubuntu version. As I write this, there is a prerelease
available with the final release to be available
later in October 2006. Edgy has a very different mission
than Dapper. Dapper was put together to be a
long-term stable release. There have been regular
updates to fix some minor nits, but all in all, it lives
up to its goal.
On the other hand, Edgy is designed to be on the
bleeding edge. While playing with it, I found some
things I wish I had on my stable system. For example,
boot-up time has been lowered significantly.
Even on my older IBM ThinkPad T23 system, the system
is up and running in less than a minute. The
down side is there are things that work on Dapper
on the same hardware but fail with Edgy.
Edgy has many more cute features. For example,
the first time users log in, they are prompted to customize
the KDE configuration. This includes language
selection, “system behavior” (offering you a
KDE, UNIX, Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OSlike
environment), level of eye candy and theme.
This is particularly well done where each step offers
explanations of what the various options mean.
We can hope the problems are addressed before the final
release is shipped. Some certainly will be. But, if your goal is a
solid computing platform rather than wanting to see what’s
new, I feel Dapper will remain the right answer for at least the
next six months. (I say six months because there is a new
Kubuntu release every six months.)
Another option is Open SUSE 10.1. Unlike Edgy, it is a conservative
update to SUSE 10. It is easy to install, complete and
reliable like Dapper. I would not hesitate to recommend it for a
desktop. Note that I am writing this article on a SUSE 10 system,
and although I have OpenSUSE 10.1 on another system, I
haven’t bothered to upgrade this system. If anything, that is a
testimonial for how stable SUSE 10 is.
Just released is Mandriva 2007. Mandriva, formerly
Mandrake, has always been geared for the desktop user. In
terms of licensing, there are free and non-free options. I decided
to download the one-CD free version and give it a test drive. In
fact, it is still downloading right now via BitTorrent.
Another plus for Mandriva, if you happen to be in Latin
America, is that they have a partnership with HP. Various HP
computers are available in this market with Mandriva preinstalled.
This is not a new announcement and was based on
Mandriva 2006, but I expect 2007 will be available soon.
So, it is here, and I am installing. Mandriva One, the single-CD,
is similar to Kubuntu in that it is a live CD that then allows you
to install it on the hard disk. So far, it has irritated me by not
having a back button where it needed one and expecting me to
double-click on the install icon.
The install is done, and it just said, “please halt your
computer, remove the CD and reboot”. Um, why didn’t it
just do all that?
Okay, rebooting. It said, “press Esc for verbose mode”. I did.
It still says the same thing. But, it did come up, and it seems to
work. After a reasonable amount of playing, it appears as complete
as one CD can be and reliable. It properly configured my
wireless card and generally seems to run fine. Probably the
biggest difference between Kubuntu and even OpenSUSE and
Mandriva is that Mandriva has a lot more self-promotion.
Bottom line: once it is up and running it works fine.
Although this single-CD version is free, there are lots of “you
need to buy it” options. I don’t need to explain them, because if
you decide to install this version, you will be told all about them.
That’s the end of my homework for this month. What will I
tell people who ask which version of Linux they should install? I
will (still) tell them Kubuntu Dapper Drake. The main change in
my story is that if they ask, “What about SUSE 10.1 or Mandriva
2007?” I can tell them that they are also good options.
Phil Hughes is Group Publisher for SSC Media Corp.
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
