Re: [LUG] Farseer enterprises

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

I asked and got a mixed result,  (as you would expect),  I think either 
fedore or Mandrake are a good bet for beginners or one of the 
distributions based on Debian as these are easier to maintain if the 
user has ADSL as with debian you run one program to update and it pretty 
much does it on it's own from there on

I would ensure you have hardware thats fully compatable first,  I have 
finally got Nvidia graphics working with suse 9.1, (just updated to 9.2 
so need to reconfigure), but I don't really need nvidia graphics apart 
from games.

What sort of market are you aiming these at,  home users, or as 
servers,  web, mail, etc, samba, nntp, or whatever as for these the a 
normal nvidia card works fine,  even without the proper drivers, as you 
don't really need 3d accelaration on a web server.

I would probably go for fedora core 3 for server type stuff,  and 
mandrake for desktop,

Paul 





Paul Sutton wrote:

> Hi
>
> My friend who runs farseerenterprises (www.farseerenterprises.com)in 
> torbay wants to produce a line of PC's running Linux.
>
> He was thinking of Linspire, and asked me if it was suitable (Not 
> having used it I am unsure) However I said that Mandrake was good for 
> beginners,
> What do people think,  I also said that it really depends on the user. 
> So what do people think would be a good idea.  I have fecora core 3 
> from the Linux magazine cover dvd,  however this is currently with the 
> technician at the college. 
> I guess what version of Linux you use depends on the user,  and what 
> he / she wants to use Linux for.
>
> Paul
>
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