Comments on: The best desktop Linux distribution of 2007

By: The best Linux distributions of spring 2008 | BitBurners.com (BETA) | We Burn a Bit!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:54:36 +0000

[...] that there will be plenty of fresh releases for every spring and fall. At the end of 2007 we ranked the best distributions of the year, but as most distros have been refreshed since it is time to have another look at the current Linux [...]

By: Llorenç

Llorenç — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:10:03 +0000

After trying almost all of the distro of your article, the only one that can be installed without so many hack in a USB hardrive (without touching Windows MBR) is absolutely Ubuntu,even SUSE with his improved installation wizard was unable to do the job.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:01:17 +0000

Ubuntu has gotten so popular due to a number of reasons:

1. Live CD. Try before you ehm… ‘install’.
2. Free. Ubuntu has no special paid for versions. It also promises to be free forever.
3. Continuity. Since it’s backed by a lot of money in the form of Mark Shuttleworth.
4. Easy acces. Downloading is quick, and you can even order a free CD that will be shipped to you.
5. Big community. Once it’s big, it will continue to grow as more users are joining.

Besides (x)Ubuntu, I really like Linux Mint and Dream Linux. Give that last one a spin. Veeery nice.

By: Hunnia

Hunnia — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:32:25 +0000

Ubununtu is Best F(u)ck the rest :)

By: ljpp

ljpp — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:23:14 +0000

Looks like PCLinuxOS is quite soon to be updated to version 2008. I had a quick spin with this “MiniME” bare bone edition, and it is very very promising! It might be a small project, but the developers are highly competent and have shown great progress with PCLOS.

http://www.linuxlove.org/2008/01/08/first-look-at-pclinuxos-2008-minime-edition/

By: DB

DB — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:32:49 +0000

In my case, using Acer 1644 wmli notebook/laptop – openSUSE 10.2/10.3 kde (current) is the best choice distro because it has no display (or gdm/kdm) issues that many other current distros have and are caused by the new “intel” graphics driver for the 915 GM card. Suse 10.3 also has the best power management options on kpowersave that allow me to also, with a bit of hacking of configuration files, to suspend to ram and hibernate to hdd and resume without any functions disabled.

My 2nd choice would be Fedora 8. If it would improve on laptop power management control (it is much better than Ubuntu, Mint, Mepis, etc.), it would be a good choice for no 1.

Mandriva 2008 Gnome would rate very highly (No 2) when it fixes the display (gdm) issues because it currently has the best CPU Frequencly Scaling Applet control options.

In my experience, 2007 was NOT a good year for Linux! Nearly all the distros I tried that use the new “intel” graphics driver had SERIOUS display issues, except Fedora 8 and openSuse 10.3 (they fixed them during the development stage).

By: ljpp

ljpp — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:31:47 +0000

I decided to check out Mandrivas Gnome edition myself, and here I am writing on it. I can now personally confirm that it is truly a lovely implementation of Gnome and an excellent choice as well.

It puzzles me that howcome distros that are often considered being KDE oriented (suse, Mandriva) are able to deliver the best implementations of Gnome as well!

Ubuntu is heading towards a Long Term Supported edition, the v8.04. I really hope that they polish the desktop appearance, as it is a very important marketing factor vs. Windows.

By: Sam Bull

Sam Bull — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:17:21 +0000

“thanks, Sam. but what I meant is that my personal preference is to have a control panel instead of System->Preferences and System->Administration by default. I always knew there is a GNOME control panel I can at least install whenever I wanted to.”

I guess you could put a shortcut applet next to the menu for control centre, not sure if there’s an easy way to remove the ‘System’ menu though. Under edit menu, if you go to System, then you can hide ‘preferences’ and/or ‘administration’, but the System menu would still remain with the help, about, and quit menu items.

By: Lettre Hebdomadaire Ubuntu n° 71 du 16 au 29 décembre 2007. « Lettre Hebdomadaire Ubuntu

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:08:43 +0000

[...] La meilleure distribution linux 2007 – ljpp a passé beaucoup de temps à tester les distributions Linux durant l’année 2007. Son but était de trouver un système d’exploitation libre approprié à son ordinateur portable de seconde main. Durant son action, il a juste testé les distributions les plus populaires, mais maintenant, en cette fin de décembre, il a finalement trouvé un vainqueur. Dans l’ordre d’arrivée, à la première place openSUSE 10.3, en second Ubuntu 7.10 et en troisième position Mandriva One 2008. Il a trouvé des avantages et des inconvénients à toutes les trois, mais se sentait mieux sur SUSE. [...]

By: yman

yman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:49:57 +0000

thanks, Sam. but what I meant is that my personal preference is to have a control panel instead of System->Preferences and System->Administration by default. I always knew there is a GNOME control panel I can at least install whenever I wanted to.

actually, now that I’ve tried it out a little I feel it’s a bit overwhelming.