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LaRoza
August 30th, 2007, 03:17 PM
What would be the best "out of the box" distro for someone who didn't have a net connection, and only could get one cd? Assume this person will want to get things not included with the Ubuntu CD.

I was thinking LinuxMint.
Kingsley
August 30th, 2007, 03:18 PM
i suggest PCLinuxOS.
FuturePilot
August 30th, 2007, 03:23 PM
I was also thinking Linux Mint. PCLinuxOS is another possibility, it also comes with a lot of the restricted stuff. Or perhaps Sabayon if you have a DVD.
Obor
August 30th, 2007, 04:06 PM
I was also thinking Linux Mint.

+1
LaRoza
August 30th, 2007, 04:10 PM
Thanks, everyone!
Arwen
August 30th, 2007, 04:11 PM
I think PClinuxOS is more user-friendly and Sabayon is gentoo based,I don't know if it's really easy to set-up,I haven't test it though.You could check out http://distrowatch.com for more details.
RageOfOrder
August 30th, 2007, 04:48 PM
Sabayon is pretty damn easy to install. It comes with everything.

Of course it kinda defeats the purpose of Gentoo since it's not really streamlined at all.

Slackware also comes with a ****-ton of stuff if you do a full install.
igknighted
August 30th, 2007, 04:49 PM
Mandriva One 2007.1 or Mint 3.0. Also Pardus is a great choice.
a12ctic
August 30th, 2007, 05:13 PM
11 DISKS OF DEBIAN! (haha, do they still even do that?)
FuturePilot
August 30th, 2007, 05:13 PM
Mepis is another one.
rsambuca
August 30th, 2007, 05:20 PM
If you don't have a net connection, both ubuntu and mint are probably not good choices. I would suggest the Sabayon mini-edition as it has everything you will need.
FuturePilot
August 30th, 2007, 05:32 PM
Why not Mint? It has all the codecs, Java, Flash installed by default.
igknighted
August 30th, 2007, 05:36 PM
Why not Mint? It has all the codecs, Java, Flash installed by default.

I doubt Java and Flash are important as there is no web connection (although I could see there being uses for java... jrisk is a lot of fun :)).

The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that putting together a custom liveCD is the way to go (assuming you don't mind putting in the time to build it). Fedora has an awesome tool for this called reconstructor, and while I have never used them I think Ubuntu and Morphix (DreamLinux) have good tools as well. This way you can include everything needed and not bother with the other crap.
FuturePilot
August 30th, 2007, 05:39 PM
Oh yeah, forgot there's no internet:lol:
stmiller
August 30th, 2007, 05:54 PM
11 DISKS OF DEBIAN! (haha, do they still even do that?)

It's up to 21 CDs now:

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/

Handy if you need a local copy of everything, I suppose. I think there are also 3-4 DVD iso images as an alternative.
a12ctic
August 30th, 2007, 06:07 PM
It's up to 21 CDs now:

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/

Handy if you need a local copy of everything, I suppose. I think there are also 3-4 DVD iso images as an alternative.

Oh God. Nice. I remember back in the day I had a full set of debian woody.