From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41665 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:29:26 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810806140029x446fd539w8e54fefea57de4f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.com> <48524f3a.0c92100a.08c9.fffff43f@mx.google.com> <1213364262.12924.31.camel@elbereth> <87mylpz8ry.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <326847810806132320u4ec02c73p70982022470c1f67@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0252484453==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213428660 28865 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 07:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:31:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 14 09:31:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7QEc-0000Ox-Qv for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:31:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABD51FC71; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:30:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12393-02-7; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DA51FBDB; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229851FBDB for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:30:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12635-10-6 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:29:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.183]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B021FBC5 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:29:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so3338613ika.2 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.38.17 with SMTP id l17mr3532579ebl.30.1213428566785; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.136.3 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:29:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <326847810806132320u4ec02c73p70982022470c1f67@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41665 Archived-At: --===============0252484453== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_15549_1875481.1213428566767" ------=_Part_15549_1875481.1213428566767 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Wow... this is a good one: Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go... http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Results were *very* close to your suggestions. Alan On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan Stone wrote: > Thanks all for kindly posting your precious recommendations and tips. > > (K)Ubuntu and PC-BSD Live CD's it will be... as an appetizer. :O) > > For future reference for people considering giving it a go, here are some > useful links: > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions > - http://distrowatch.com > > Best, > Alan > ------=_Part_15549_1875481.1213428566767 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Wow... this is a good one:

Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

Results were *very* close to your suggestions.

Alan

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks all for kindly posting your precious recommendations and tips.

(K)Ubuntu and PC-BSD Live CD's it will be... as an appetizer.  :O)

For future reference for people considering giving it a go, here are some useful links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
- http://distrowatch.com

Best,
Alan

------=_Part_15549_1875481.1213428566767-- --===============0252484453== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ --===============0252484453==--