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The reason I suggest CentOS (or Debian) is because it met the needs of a large majority of people I dealt with. Also remember that a lot of these people work in
by gits1225 14y ago
The reason I suggest CentOS (or Debian) is because it met the needs of a large majority of people I dealt with. Also remember that a lot of these people work in offices and having printers (or java) set-up correctly is integral to their work, which I haven't had any problems setting up thus far (or directing people "How to" on the phone) in CentOS. Every single one of 'em has then installed the same distribution they use at work at home as well.
One of the reasons why this all works really well is that, these distributions are installed on hardware which is relatively old (2-3 years), which is the case for the majority. Distributions need to realise that when an operating system is installed, it is supposed to run without issues for a very very long time.
P.S: I did test openSUSE (12.1), but, it had its own share of issues that I don't recommend it to newbies.
- lstrope 14y agoIn the end which font(s) have you found that render well or that you recommend? Any monospace in particular? Edit: P.S. I feel that I was too harsh in discounting CentOS as a "difficult" server distro. It is, for the reasons in your reply, probably one of the better choices. I can't knock that and it is a good enterprise recommendation - for older hardware in particular.
- gits1225 14y agoAny font that doesn't ship with the default install needs some amount of tweaking to "get right". That said, like mentioned before, fonts in the Ubuntu family works well in all areas. Personally, I have been alternating between Ubuntu mono (bold) and terminus for a while now on the terminal and Ubuntu Regular as the system font.