I run two systems, both dual booting w/ Windows XP Pro.
The first is Debian Sarge, which was a bit difficult to install, but has good covereage for PD packages with apt. Generally more difficult to use, but I have more control over things.
The second is Fedora Core 2 with Planet CCRMA. This was much easier to install, given that this rig has hardware debian doesn't support at all yet (apparently)--just pop the CDs in and it figured everything out. People keep talking about "the new Debian installer", though, and I don't know about that. Generally very easy to use, but I'm never quite sure what's going on under the hood--but it "just works", so I'm not complaining.
Hope that helps.
Anyone tried Ubuntu?
If you want to get all medieval and compile everything like Yves ;) , maybe check out Gentoo, which is what I would use if I had all the time in the world. I hear its package manager, emerge, is better than sex.
I started with 33 gigs to windows and 7 gigs to Linux, but I keep adding space to Linux and taking it away from Windows, as Linux is slowly replacing everything I would use Windows for. Right now I think I'm at 25G/15G Win/Linux.
pun chik wrote:
hi , i bought a new laptop and i want to install linux to have both linux and windows in the same computer. i have 75 gg hard drive. im new with linux, just tried knoppix and dynebolic bootable cds for a while. so the question is: which linux version do u recommend for a noobie linux user that want to use it for nasty pd patching????
thank you
pun chik