Linux Which distro is right for me

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indian

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hi , i a newbi in linux. :new:
When ever i ask which Distribution is right for me people say : "depends on you!"

so here are my capabilities and requirments
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capacities

I had lot of (1 year :) ) experince in managing windows NT/2kP/XP systems and network. i am the unofficial network admin of my LAN in my hostel.

I am comfy in c/c++ and compiling etc is not a problem (i am 3rd year CSE Engg. student)

cofiguring/editing something using console is not a problem but would prefer GUI based tools for common/repetetive jobs.

some limited experince with mandrake and fedora core 3
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Requirments

Will prefer free/ completely non-commercial software
eg. would prefer Gnome over Kde

will like all the automount features to be precofigured

will prefer distros pre-configured with wine

need working Samba integration withe the browser.
(Mandrake had it , in Fedora i have to use the cmd-line smbclient session coz whenever i give "smb://something" the browser says authentication error without asking for password or username)

also the local GLUG (GNU/Linux User Group) guy scared me about saying Debian/Debian based distros are damm. geeky :fear: and only suitable fr people with unix background.

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need more, i have formatted my windows partition (say no to pirated software), so i need a full fledged linux primerly for these jobs
  • listen to songs/view movies
  • share/access files from my hostel LAN
  • if possible play fa few games (Age of Empires 2, using wine/cedega)
  • do some development work
  • read e-books
 
hey i posted the link above whic points to :

http://www.mepis.org/ :)

Its a live CD which you can install on hard disk too.

Also knoppix comes with wine installed. You can also install knoppix to hard disk

Regards.
 
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