suggestions for a second hard rive

[amunimanghi]

I have an 80gig hard drive laying around and I was thinking of installing another linux distro. I'm running Ubuntu right now. What I'm looking for is a distro that would be easy for people with no clue about linux (sister). Thanks.

[aysiu]

Mepis.

[kingsidy]

i would say ubuntu. In the past month i have installed it on 2 computer whose users are average late thirties. It is working out great for them. Give it a try

[John.Michael.Kane]

Heres some you may want to look at.

ark (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ark)
linspire (http://distrowatch.com/linspire)
mepis (http://distrowatch.com/mepis)
xandros (http://distrowatch.com/xandros)
foxDesktop (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fox)
hedinux (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=hedinux)
pclinuxos (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pclinuxos)

[Arnaud_B]

I'll say (K)(X)Ubuntu too... it comes *very* well configured and without much added configuration to do... After well... there are a lot that can be improved but it requires more work... :-)
If you want another option I'll say debian (stable of course) if you sister doesn't mind having a little older stuff because if you know ubuntu you can setup her machine easily and it's more stable and it is less likely to give you much work once it's setup...
just my 2c :-)
Hope this helps,
A.

[therunnyman]

If you go ahead with an (X/K)Ubuntu install on a second HD, I'd strongly suggest you don't add a third hard drive. You can, sure, but don't say I didn't warn ya...

runny

[RAV TUX]

I have an 80gig hard drive laying around and I was thinking of installing another linux distro. I'm running Ubuntu right now. What I'm looking for is a distro that would be easy for people with no clue about linux (sister). Thanks.

I'll give you a list of the top three Distros NOT to use first:

1. Mepis
2. SUSE
3. fedora core 5

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Now top three Distros you should use:

1. Gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/

2. Yoper
http://www.yoper.com/

3. dyne:bolic
http://www.dynebolic.org/

EDIT: for your sister I suggest Yoper or dyne:bolic(if she is into music and multimedia dyne:bolic is the way to go.)



for super easy try PC-BSD
http://www.pcbsd.org/

[amunimanghi]

I'll give you a list of the top three Distros NOT to use first:

1. Mepis
2. SUSE
3. fedora core 5

__________________________________________

Now top three Distros you should use:

1. Gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/

2. Yoper
http://www.yoper.com/

3. dyne:bolic
http://www.dynebolic.org/

EDIT: for your sister I suggest Yoper or dyne:bolic(if she is into music and multimedia dyne:bolic is the way to go.)



for super easy try PC-BSD
http://www.pcbsd.org/


What is the bad thing about Mepis? Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

[aysiu]

yozef had a bad experience with Mepis personally. Read more here (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=174931).

I and many others have not shared that experience.

[bruce89]

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

[amunimanghi]

im going to dual boot with mepis. thanks for all of your help!

[Compucore]

How about sun Solaris 10 for free

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp

Here is another slew of free os's for you. The only one that I know of that is no longer free is SkyOS they did at one point where you could download it for free. But they now charge $30 american I believe that will get you the final version on CD. Some of them are still active while others are no longer active. Take a look when you get a chance. I think there is BEOS as well there for download as well too.An earlier version though.
http://www.freeos.com/download.php

One more before I forget here. Found BEOS over here and I still have my active log over here. So I just copied the first part so you can go to it and download it for yourself if your interested in it. http://www.beosonline.com

Have fun.

COmpucore.

[amunimanghi]

Thanks.