Chest12 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 My new laptop is on order decided not to get another mac yet try another dell. Its coming with that thing called vista(what is it im an OS X user). I don't know wat linux distro to install on my new laptop im really stuck. On the clusters at work they use opensolaris in the lab next door debian and on the machine they supply redhat, so what to go? Will this laptop run OS X? Thanks in Advance D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 My suggestion would be openSUSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 My suggestion would be openSUSE Seconded. I read that it is really great for notebooks. Get the 32bit DVD and install either KDE 3.5 or Gnome (or both). KDE 4 is rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Descalzo Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Will this laptop run OS X? Yes. Try this thread. And this one. I have heard some good things about OpenSUSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chest12 Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Debian all the way I think, with the install of OS X as well just for fun. But which desktop environment? Gnome looks impressive yet KDE has its advantages for the software developer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Get the GNOME version of OpenSUSE 11. I'm a bigtime KDE guy, but Novell did a kickass job implementing GNOME. They completely integrated YaST2 into it to achieve a much better balance of control/friendliness than the standard upstream GNOME that most of the big distros use. It does an EXCELLENT job giving you the granularity of Linux on a GUI that is friendly for both new and power users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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