Re: [orca-list] accessible Systems that are not Vinux for the beginner?

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

That reminds me, Fedora 22 seems really great.
Did any one try the installer?
Is it fairly accessible?
I saw it on a desktop pre installed, it was good.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Sunday 21 June 2015 04:37 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> First, a couple of key points. One you say Vinux is way out of date.
> That's not necessarily so. Vinux 4 was based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS which
> still gets regular updates for desktop and server versions so it isn't
> as out of date as you might think. Two, servers aren't updated as
> regularly as desktops therefore it is not always recommended to run
> the latest and greatest if one is running a server. There are a number
> of cases where updating a server too often can cause problems so point
> being if you want a server you should not be too concerned about
> running the latest packages here if you want a server.
>
> Now, to answer your question more directly my recommendations would be
> Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 22, or Sonar. All of them have a decent package
> repository, are fairly up to date, and are fairly easy to get up and
> running with accessibility. So one of those is where I'd personally
> start if I were you.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 6/20/15, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am pretty new to Linux (I have played around with Vinux quite a lot),
> > but it is not my main distro and I don't use it a lot.
> > I am looking into learning more about servers and getting familiar with
> > the Linux environment.
> > What system would you recommend? Vinux is way out of date and I would
> > like to keep updated as much as possible.
> > The systems other people recommend are Ubuntu and Debian, but I've seen
> > CentOS also.
> > I see Sonar is more updated than Vinux, how would it be for my
> > situation? I would be using it at first in a VM, but would hope to move
> > it to a partition if I liked it enough.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
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