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Originally Posted by dragon
Know of a good distro Zingle? I'd be perticuarly interested in one thats package management system/repositories contains a wide selecteion and is regularly updated I find most of them don't have the current versions of a lot of software and manually updating usally throws me into depedancy hell.
On my home machine I dont really want to have to faff about trying to grab several librires and install stuff from source just to be able to get a media player updated for example... (i usally manage to screw something up).
Its about time they relised that if they want more people to use linux then pretty graphical installers or the mac drag n drop, your done meathord is the way to go.
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We should really fork this question into its own new thread, but here goes anyway...
From your criteria above, I think you should give Ubuntu a whirl (or Kubuntu - the same distro but using the prettier KDE desktop manager). It uses the Debian APT package management which is nice and easy to use - no dependency hell any more - and if you use Synaptic it's got a good GUI front end, although the apt command is straight forward enough anyway.
The advantage over other distros is that the packages seem to be updated more frequently - esp compared to Debian, which it's based on.
Check out the docs -
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/deskt...e/C/index.html [ubuntu.com] - and see if you think you could get by with it. Then either download it for free or request they send you the latest DVD (also for free
).
HTH