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Reccomend a distro based on these requirements

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  • #32
    limnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭limnam


    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    The information I was given was that it could be and has been, even though it's designed for a server application. I didn't know how accurate that was, that's why I asked. That's why I also asked would I be better running fedora or arch ? So which one would you advise ? Because if we all knew everything, then we wouldn't need any forum.

    It can be and is very popular as a professional desktop in enterprise.

    As mentioned all ready it really depends on what your goal is. If it's a personal desktop but you want a RHEL "like" experience you might prefer Fedora, if you want to just mess around it doesn't really matter too much.

    Arch can have a steep learning curve and put people off. It might be an idea to run Fedora as a DE and have arch in a vm if you want to learn more.


  • #33
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    limnam wrote: »
    Because it makes one of the most professional/stable desktop experience's you're likely to find. So as far as Enterprise it's RHEL or SuSE. The mind boggles why you wouldn't.

    If it's for a home desktop and you want the latest and greatest then yes it doesn't make much sense. It would still be rock solid though if that's what your need is then it's the perfect desktop environment and has been for years in places like IBM/ARM/Intel/RH obviously.

    For the purposes of a Server only, I'll never use a DE. Why add the extra resource when you can do everything from the CLI.


  • #34
    limnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭limnam


    L.Jenkins wrote: »
    For the purposes of a Server only, I'll never use a DE. Why add the extra resource when you can do everything from the CLI.

    The point I want to make very clear as the OP didn't specifically ask for a server only.
    Is that RHEL/CentOS is an extremely good choice especially to hit the won't vanish next year box.

    You're making it sound like RHEL is an awful choice for a desktop machine when it couldn't be further from the truth.


  • #35
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    About 10 years ago I was working on an open source project that required linux & an oracle db (yeah I know open source with oracle!?). Anyway, installing oracle on linux was a pain then, and while I tended towards debian for servers trying to install it there was a real bitch. But it installed easily enough (well easily enough after I did it 10-20 times) on RHEL but I'm pretty sure (though not certain) that the oracle install required a graphical desktop be installed. I have a vague memory of installing the database then using sysinit to switch the runlevel to 3 for future use, so they DE wasn't using my meagre resources.


  • #36
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    limnam wrote: »
    The point I want to make very clear as the OP didn't specifically ask for a server only.
    Is that RHEL/CentOS is an extremely good choice especially to hit the won't vanish next year box.

    You're making it sound like RHEL is an awful choice for a desktop machine when it couldn't be further from the truth.

    I understand if the OP wants to use is a Desktop Distro. If that's what the OP wants, then I'd say go for it.
    croo wrote: »
    About 10 years ago I was working on an open source project that required linux & an oracle db (yeah I know open source with oracle!?). Anyway, installing oracle on linux was a pain then, and while I tended towards debian for servers trying to install it there was a real bitch. But it installed easily enough (well easily enough after I did it 10-20 times) on RHEL but I'm pretty sure (though not certain) that the oracle install required a graphical desktop be installed. I have a vague memory of installing the database then using sysinit to switch the runlevel to 3 for future use, so they DE wasn't using my meagre resources.

    Only ever installed it on Windows and for Development purposes. Otherwise I install command line tools on linux.


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  • #37
    Krusader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Was using Mint now moved on to Ubuntu MATE.
    It seems a bit faster. I really like it


  • #38
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    limnam wrote: »
    The point I want to make very clear as the OP didn't specifically ask for a server only.
    Is that RHEL/CentOS is an extremely good choice especially to hit the won't vanish next year box.

    You're making it sound like RHEL is an awful choice for a desktop machine when it couldn't be further from the truth.

    Well all(or most at least) Red Hat employees use RHEL as their Desktop environment.


  • #39
    Dero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Dero


    syklops wrote: »
    Well all(or most at least) Red Hat employees use RHEL as their Desktop environment.

    And it was the standard supported desktop in IBM when I was there too (RHEL 6 at that time).


  • #40
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    Dero wrote: »
    And it was the standard supported desktop in IBM when I was there too (RHEL 6 at that time).

    Years ago in Ericsson I was working with Solaris on the Sun Blade 1500 workstations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Blade_(workstation) with the beautifuil CDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

    Its not uncommon to use the same OS with a DE when you are compiling/building for that OS as a sever.


  • #41
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Debian 8 Stable. Note that Debian 9 may be released next March.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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