Adamant1988
July 7th, 2006, 04:17 AM
I am currently working on a project to get my school and then my community to at least acknowledge the presence of linux.. maybe even support it. I'm starting with the school for the obvious reason that they have to listen to me, my project is a graduation requirement.
I'm having a dillema though. I want to suggest a distro for them that I can point Home users and everyone else to...
I've narrowed my choices down to
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xandros.
The pros of using Ubuntu are paramount, and Kubuntu has the same pros, the only thing I dislike about Kubuntu is that it feels as though it's not the 'real' ubuntu (different color schemes and all that) and I feel people may become confused by it and I'll spend more time explaining then actually working on the project.
BUT they are free, both of them, and that's a HUGE plus.
Then on the other end of the spectrum is Xandros, which offers a more 'windows' like experience, and probably THE best compatibility with windows possible. The flaw in it is that it costs money straight off the bat, which is something I dislike as Free makes the switch easier...
Another plus is that it has codec support right off the bat as well.
I need some help deciding which of those three I should back, I can't afford to devide my efforts by pushing more than one of them as an option (I'm working with hardware vendors to attain a computer with a pre-installed copy of the distro of choice (Kubuntu not an option from system 76 though =\) for a student in my school, chosen based on several criteria (need, grades, etc.) and I want it to match with the one the school is using..)
I know there is an ubuntu bias here, but I would hope you can all be objective enough to offer some good advice :)
I'm having a dillema though. I want to suggest a distro for them that I can point Home users and everyone else to...
I've narrowed my choices down to
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xandros.
The pros of using Ubuntu are paramount, and Kubuntu has the same pros, the only thing I dislike about Kubuntu is that it feels as though it's not the 'real' ubuntu (different color schemes and all that) and I feel people may become confused by it and I'll spend more time explaining then actually working on the project.
BUT they are free, both of them, and that's a HUGE plus.
Then on the other end of the spectrum is Xandros, which offers a more 'windows' like experience, and probably THE best compatibility with windows possible. The flaw in it is that it costs money straight off the bat, which is something I dislike as Free makes the switch easier...
Another plus is that it has codec support right off the bat as well.
I need some help deciding which of those three I should back, I can't afford to devide my efforts by pushing more than one of them as an option (I'm working with hardware vendors to attain a computer with a pre-installed copy of the distro of choice (Kubuntu not an option from system 76 though =\) for a student in my school, chosen based on several criteria (need, grades, etc.) and I want it to match with the one the school is using..)
I know there is an ubuntu bias here, but I would hope you can all be objective enough to offer some good advice :)