I just need to dual boot my vista lappy with a linux flavor so that I can rsync RTTP with a drive at my house.

What flavor should I load?
Fedora? Ubuntu? straight debian? gentoo? slackware? Knoppix hd-boot?

Windows ME

if you just have a specific purpose and know the commands, just do slackware, go minimalistic. i'm not a unix guy so that's all the help you get from me.

ubuntu, fedora or debian

Windows ME is the best choice.

thank you reimroc for your decisiveness. I'm glad you aren't picking the resturant for lunch.

the gay one

dark: I have never used slackware. it's the only distrib I've never touched.

OS/2 WARP

lol there are so many versions it makes choosing hard.

yeah, but they all have their pluses and minuses. I know RHE the best. but I like ubuntu or debian the best cause the apt manager rules.
Gentoo makes the smallest installs. Problem is that I don't really know it well or truly how to use emerge. emerge seems better than apt.

and everything kicks yum's ass.

gentoo is good if you're more of a power user. i personally like unbuntu or debian because they're the most user friendly.

I installed ubuntu for the usability on a PC that was going to be a mythTV box, what a year later turned out to be bad RAM crippled that system. It's now running win7 after I installed debian. I find debian to have more to it. Plus ubuntu was proven that it killed laptop hard drives faster that it should.

wow i didn't even know that little fact about unbuntu killing laptop drives.

it probably doesn't in the current version, but this was 2 years ago when I was setting it up:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1742258

rebunked
http://mynewlaptop.blogspot.com/2007/11/ca...tu-damage-my-hard-drive-no-way.html

http://lifehacker.com/5170138/five-best-linux-distributions

i never have either, but i think you can tell it to give you a basic shell and a terminal, so if you're looking for a minimal OS for doing one thing, there ya go

so... you are coming up with a general comment on a linux flavor that you have never used. I should start doing sports announcing and commentary.

slackware is just like any other linux set up and it's just as huge when you install it as every other linux.

windows managers galore.

pwned

and if I wanted just something tiny, I would install DSL. it was 50MB last time I looked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux

yeah DSL is retardo small...haven't tried it out yet though so not sure how it is with hardware support and features.


THE POWER OF THE COMMUNITYLOLOL


*makes fapping gesture*

I was making knoppix distribs for my company in 2005 and looked at DSL so I could get our xGB of data on to a CD.

old news is old but Linux Mint 18 is pretty excellent these days.

I prefer Mate over Cinnamon but it seems like cinnamon is pretty popular.

I just use debian, centos, or ubuntu.