which is better??? I have 512mbRAm (may upgrade to 1gb for xmas), a 2.93 GHz Intel celeron D processor, DVD drive, 80GB hdd, a 128mb video card and a 5.1 sound card. which will run quicker and do either need antivirus (and all the rest of it) software?
Mandriva vs openSUSE 10.3?microsoft
I have used opensuse for some time now and only used mandriva a few times, so this is a bit of a biased answer, but I would go for Opensuse 10.3, if you get the whole 5 CDs or DVD make sure you download the addons which will get stuff like video playback using encrypted formats. Your spec should run but if you ask questions about Linux you should include the make of things like your video card, because if its Nvidia or ATI you will need to install drivers to get full 3D acceleration. I've never had a sound card that didn't work with suse so you should be OK.
Linux doesn't need antivirus software or for that matter antispyware, although ClamAV antivirus will check for windows virus in case you pass it on to a windows machine, it comes with opensuse as does a pre configured firewall, also opensuse has about 1800 to 2000 free software packages that come with it which will do everything from running office software, including microsoft office using wine to using your machine as a server so you won't be short of software, also there is a huge amount of open source software free on the internet.
Mandriva vs openSUSE 10.3?norton ghost
I like the previous answer, but it is completely bogus to suggest that Linux is virus-proof. It never was virus proof, it was just that no one was writing virii for Linux, those days are gone.
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