Al salamo Alikom
i need your advice, my company will migrate to linux in the managerial departments. so they asked me to suggest the distro, install and train. the distro requirement
- User friendly
- Open MS documents
- Email clients
- Network condiguration
- virus clean
so all those requirement is available in all distro but if any one have a trial with this can advice me, which distro to choose.
thnx
Note:i can't make a poll in the site, so i create a forum topics, Moderator can make polls available and under moderation.
Open Craft
I think that Ramez can help in this as they are already using GNU Linux.. can you suggest ramez?
Go for mandrake
basically mandrake will fill the above requirements
Diaa Radwan
Seconded.
At IT Synergy we're also standardized on Mandrake.
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Secretary
Youssef, i knew that IT Synergy used linux but i thought that they are using in administration or deployment or even development.. what about the secretary? does she use linux? we will make the secretary, finance, sales,...etc use linux.
thnx
404
Well, I can say that we don't have a secretary.
Mandrake
2006 will be OUT soon but i think You have to ues stable release "LE2005" better
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thnx
thnx Conceptor, i am knew about the alternatives well :) but this page is helpfull, i missed this url from a long time :)
Well the last three requireme
Well the last three requirements can be found in almost all distros. This leaves us with the "User friendly" requirement, and allow me to add the "major distro" requirement. You want a popular distro so that you could get support easily.
This leaves us with the following:
Everyone can argue that (their distro) is the best, but actually there isn't that much of a difference. I suggest that you go with Mandrake for one reason: It has a great "control center" which can be used to setup almost everything in the system. I'm saying this even though I don't run Mandrake myself. It's your choice though so if you have any other requirements that can't be fulfilled using Mandrake, you're free to use any other distro.
mandriva is your best choice
actually ANY linux distro will fullfill all your requirements, but i highly recommend mandrake/driva cause it's the most suitable for beginners (or that's what i think)
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
Mandriva
Well, i can see that all suggest mandriva, although that i am not a mandrake lover :P anyway we will close this poll today to take a decision :) many thanks for your contribution.
Suse!!!!
Al salamo alikom
what about Suse?!!
do any one recommend it?
Suse .. :) you stoped when i
Suse .. :) you stoped when i mentioned suse :) is there any problem?
i found Suse 9.3 is gr8 and easy, also contain many windows like application.
anyway thank you all.
Shocked
Your open karma just took a nosedive. Please hand over your EGLUG ID card at the door.
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why!
ya 3am matez3alsh awy keda :) i want my people to use linux, they are working under windows more than 7 years..
be practical please, but you didn't tell me if the secreatary uses linux or not in IT Synergy
:) thank you
lol
lool@ YoussefAssad
besara7a... 3andak 7a2
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
sorry for the late reply we
i tried mandrake but didn't really like it for no specific reason, i didn't give suse much attention but i felt more confortable with it plus it is very easy to configure
the best things in life are free --- so as myself
Many thanks Ramez :) ----
Many thanks Ramez :)
go mandriva! (i'd recommend s
go mandriva! (i'd recommend suse but haven't tried it so far)
all our workstations at Microaxon are running mandriva 2005! except for a dual boot box running XP for testing purposes.
Thank you, i agree with you
Thank you, i agree with you that Mandriva will be a good solution.
Also thanks for JPackage
I was a mandrake user for yea
I was a mandrake user for years and I never had problems resolving contrib dependencies using "urpmi"
Can you please give examples ?
dbdesigner, mysql administrat
dbdesigner, mysql administrator and query browser, ....
huh
then run
it just works, no searching required.
couldn't find a package named dbdesigner though
Alaa
"context is over-rated. who are you anyway?"
I did configure them using rp
I did configure them using rpmdrake (which uses urpmi as it's backend, AFAIK) before installing the packages (offical updates, addtional sources and custom (contrib)) and yet it fails!
here's what i got when trying
here's what i got when trying to install QB
assuming 2006 version
Install libgtkmm2.0_1:
The package that has libpangomm file
- I'm a code junkie security enthusiast
The point is, it doesn't not
The point is, it doesn't not resolve dependancies automagically, which is one thing why package managers exist! i'm using a statically linked version anyways
and btw did you try that?
indeed
The oddity is that its not getting it by itself already
- I'm a code junkie security enthusiast
i think it doesn't unless thi
i think it doesn't unless this dependancy is satisfied by an official package!
odd
What's your Mandrake version ?
What mirrors are you using ?
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