Linux Which distro ? For office works . . .

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phuchungbhutia

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I need to ask which distro is good for office works . . I have with me - fedora , suse , ubuntu , solaris . . . I want it to work well with hp printer deskjet , epson dot matrix , and easy configuring lan and internet services . . Please tell me if there is any issues with device drivers in such distro . . .
 
For office setups - Hands down its Ubuntu for its simplicity and maintainability. get the latest LTS (long term supported) desktop releease which is Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 meaning its supported for FREE for 3 years with bugfixes and security updates by Canonical the parent company of Ubuntu. The next LTS should come in April versioned 10.04 :) My office has Ubuntu 8.04 installations and it works well for office worker desktops and also developer workstations...

but the assumption here you want plain office work - openoffice, printing, email, web etc. why are you asking about device drivers? there should be no problem unless you got some fancy/special hardware/graphics/media?
 
I needed to check . . . my office comp got spoilt and need to replace it with another one thats lying in the corner . . Its p4 cos i dont want anyone else to use it . . Its main usages are typing and documenting . . So needed to confirm it first if any issue getting printer connected with it . . Its good that i have used ubuntu earlier . .

Wrong typo . . The machine is p4 and i am installing linux cos i ve used ubuntu to some extent earlier and importantly i dont want anyone messing with my comp . . Playing games and so . .
 
phuchungbhutia said:
I needed to check . . . my office comp got spoilt and need to replace it with another one thats lying in the corner . . Its p4 cos i dont want anyone else to use it . . Its main usages are typing and documenting . . So needed to confirm it first if any issue getting printer connected with it . . Its good that i have used ubuntu earlier . .

Wrong typo . . The machine is p4 and i am installing linux cos i ve used ubuntu to some extent earlier and importantly i dont want anyone messing with my comp . . Playing games and so . .
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the verdict is in :) go for ubuntu 8.04 for least maintenance headache...
 
Mint (Gloria) 9.10
it has all stuff u want ,
never ask for driver
just plug anything
epson hp nvidia nokia,
even newer tata photon, reliance broadband+
activated withen seconds
just install ones
im sure u will be follower of MINT
 
^^Mint is not an office distro. On the top there is no Mint 9.10 :P Its Linux Mint 7 :)P

I would prefer Ubuntu anyday over bloated mint :P
 
mint be better than ubuntu for the average users\beginners with linux.

Mint is ubuntu+prop. codecs. and some other stuff which takes a while to set up on ubuntu for newbs.

the chain is like:

debian-->ubuntu-->mint.
 
Thanks for all the replies . . I guess i ll go for mint then . . i was thinking about using the ubuntu repositories . . I have one old ubuntu studio and some deb packs in an iso . .
and i was thinking about customizing it . . Can i do it . . I want to create a bootable dvd with mint and all the other softwares in it plus the ubuntu studio . . Or can i make two bootables in one dvd . . :) . . I had tried some years ago but couldnt succeed . . Some power iso software , i guess . . Is there some easier and better way to do it . . Please
 
Or could i do it the other way round like install ubuntu and fetch the dependencies and debs from mint . . And make it bootable . .
 
^you may not combine two distros in the same bootable media.All the newer distros comes as live CD's anyways.

Don't worry though, mint uses ubunutu's repos.
 
I think Ubuntu 9.04 should serve your purpose well. Simply because of the online forums which will help you out in those hair-pulling moments.
 
Ok thanks . . . Prob is that that ubuntu studio i m talking about is 800 mb and it cant come in a cd and thinking that i write in dvd dont make sense . . Just waste 4 gb space . . So i thought about customise it . . But anyways its good i got so many info about it . . Thanks a lot . .
 
I installed ubuntu 9.04 but its causing prob . . I have two drives one is sata and another pata and . . I have win xp in sata and i installed ubuntu in the other today . . But i couldnt see ubuntu detect sata drive even while installing and so there is no bootloader either . . One more thing is that i didnt partition swap so could that be any problem but i dont think so . . As it didnt show any other drive i dont think so . . Plus it takes time to start up the ubuntu os . . Now i have to change boot drive priority everytime i need to change the os i want to use . . and if swap does help . . How do i install bootloader plus create swap . .
 
what is the output of "ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid" and "fdisk -l" ?

so you have pata and sata disk huh? its going to be tricky to try to do this... :) make sure all your important data is backed up before attempting to do anything further...

try this:

boot from linux cd live session and go to command prompt.

run following commands:

(if the commands are not exact, try to use some common sense or search the net for correct ones, especially if you have done some different partitioning scheme)

assuming your first disk (win) is /dev/sda and your pata disk (linux) partition is /dev/sdb1 then:

Code: 
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

sudo chroot /mnt

sudo update-grub

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

sudo reboot

it is based on this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover Grub 2 via LiveCD

be prepared to be able to reinstall linux and/or reinstall or recover windows boot via its CD :)

edit: to create swap you can start the partition program in linux menu system->administration area... but then you need to edit /etc/fstab file but we can see that later...

edit2: if you lose the option of booting into windows but are now able to boot into linux then after booting into linux go to command prompt and run:

"sudo update-grub"

then check the /boot/grub/menu.lst to see if any entry for windows is there or not, if not then we can add it...
 
Thanks vishal . . I am on it its gonna take time . . And i was looking at adding gnome partition editor but its saying cannot be installed in your comp type i386 . . Sorry i cant type the dmesg data cos i m on gprs and its really long like 120 lines :) . .
Thanks for you reply . . You seem to be a real linux enthusiast . . I ll try to do what you said . . Then lets see . .
 
I cant open any places like home, etc . . And i tried with ls - al and it shows only two dev sda1 which is the pata drive of my partition and sda5 which is my pata dvd drive apart from . and . . / One more thing to add here is that i have two dvd drives and other one is sata one which is not detected at all . . Plus the fdisk -l didnt show any thing . . :)
 
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