01-04-2008
i agree, you'll never know which one you prefer till you have tried them.
my top recommendations for linux distros for former windows users are:
Mandrake
Fedora
Ubuntu
Xandros
in that order, though i swithered a bit about which way round to put ubuntu and fedora. all three have their "issues" and none of them is a proper ms windows replacement.
i have heard that SuSE have dodgy licence requirements of their users now, so personally i am staying clear of it. the only people i know using it are also capitalists, make your own mind up.
I would also recommend slackware if you are not looking for a windows clone, and if you are interested in learning a bit about linux. unlike debian and gentoo, you can get a working slackware more or less out of the box and then dive into the configuration of it from there.
some people end up with quite unusual favourite OSs though, you'll just have to try a few.
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whohas
whohas(1) whohas(1)
NAME
whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories
SYNTAX
whohas [--no-threads] [--shallow] [--strict] [-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]] pkgname
DESCRIPTION
whohas is a command line tool to query package lists from the Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware (and linuxpack-
ages.net), Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, MacPorts and Cygwin distributions.
OPTIONS
--no-threads
Don't use multiple threads to query package lists (will be much slower)
--shallow
Limit to one call per server. Faster, but loses some information, typically package size and release date.
--strict
List only those packages that have exactly pkgname as their name.
-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]
Queries only for packages for the listed distributions. Recognised values for Dist1, Dist2, etc. are "archlinux", "cygwin",
"debian", "fedora", "fink", "freebsd", "gentoo", "mandriva", "macports", "netbsd", "openbsd", "opensuse", "slackware", "sourcemage",
and "ubuntu".
pkgname
Package name to query for
FILES
whohas uses various files in ~/.whohas to cache package lists for some distributions.
SEE ALSO
See intro.txt or intro.html notes on using whohas.
AUTHORS
whohas is written and maintained by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
This man page was written by Jonathan Wiltshire <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> for the Debian project and adapted for a new version by Philipp
Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
Jonathan Wiltshire 0.29 whohas(1)