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Linux Desktop Distro Shootout

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the slow-news-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek has posted an open-source OS comparison. Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared pits openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.4, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1 against each other. And the winner is ... Ubuntu. Author Serdar Yegulalp writes: 'Ubuntu 8.4 remains one of the best desktop distributions for many good reasons: it works with almost any hardware you throw at it, and has tons of features for both existing Linux users and prospective converts from Windows.' He also gave openSUSE points for ease of use on the desktop, and Mandriva kudos for ease of administration."

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  1. Better methods of statistical comparison. by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    1 - Make a live disk of each.
    2 - Build many identical robots.
    3 - The round starts upon insertion of the disk.

    Last standing robot wins.

    THUNDERDOME!!!

  2. Re:Add free version. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    of what?

  3. Hey!!! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    No fair! Who gave OpenSUSE that AK47?!

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    1. Re:Hey!!! by twitter · · Score: 1, Funny

      Bill Gates did but they only used it to shoot both of them in the foot.

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      Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

    2. Re:Hey!!! by explosivejared · · Score: 1, Funny

      What's really unfair is the fact that, being bred in Africa and all, Ubuntu uses guerilla tactics that border on terrorism.

      Nothing is off-limits to Ubuntu's crazed, fundamentalist frenzy.

      Ubuntu: Answer me this Mr. Suse, what good is that superior firepower of yours if you can't even boot. [cut away to a man masked with a smiley face mutilating an innocent young grub]
      OpenSUSE: St. Linus perserve me, I'll exact my revenge on you, all of you monsters!

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  4. Re:Recent Linux convert from Windows by initdeep · · Score: 5, Funny

    can you be a recent convert to formatting now? :D

  5. Re:"Almost any hardware you throw at it" by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    In keeping with industry practices, maybe they should have rephrased the claim to say: Almost any random hardware is "Ubuntu Capable".

  6. Re:Fedora by pavon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fedora 9 comes out 8 days <3 Fixed that for you.

  7. Re:Lastest Ubuntu, Older other distros by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apples people! I hate those guys. They're always falling on me.

  8. Ubuntu 8.4? by X.25 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to order 1 copy of Ubuntu 8.4.

    Thank you.

    1. Re:Ubuntu 8.4? by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No problem, it will be shipped in the 40th month of 2008.

  9. Re:Ubuntu 8.04 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Funny how the worlds "most popular" operating system is full of bugs and other problems. While the worlds "most popular" linux operating system has a noticable number of bugs and other problems. Perhaps we should make linux more buggy so that the masses will like it more!

  10. Re:Add free version. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... and let's not forget "loose" vs. "lose"

  11. And the winner is... by Brandybuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the winner is... the distro most like Windows!

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  12. Re:8.4? by jonas_jonas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it be fairer to compare openSUSE 8, Ubuntu 8, PCLinuxOS 8, Mandriva Linux 8, Fedora 8, SimplyMEPIS 8, CentOS 8, Mac OS 8 and Windows 8?
    *cough*

  13. Re:8.4? by Stormwatch · · Score: 2, Funny

    And Mac OS 8 would STILL have the best interface.

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