Collect some current distro disks (see Paul @ecafe if urgent), and try them out to see what you like best / works for you.
Mandrake is ok, but still buggy. RedHat are counting themselves out, but try Fedora.. (RH9.0 is solid).
SuSE has by far the best hardware detection I've seen, so currently gets my vote (efficiency).
Training-wise, Gentoo looks unavoidable - but probably the opposite for a newbie client.
Somewhat unsung but most popular? for SysAds seems Debian - you can't go past that. Knoppix is the easy way in.
Guarantee: you will have insufficient time to depart from this learning curve.
HTH
Rik
Don Gould wrote:
I thought I'd have a read of the web site and sort things out for my self...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
The link above only lead me to a list of topic headings.
Maybe I should be looking at Mandrake? That also seems to be popular around here.
Would that be a better choice?
Guys all I'm really looking for is a good GPL linux distro that a bunch of locals are using so I can give and get good assistance.
I'd use RH but it seems to be heading down the commerical lines...
Debian support on the local mirrors doesn't seem that good and frankly it doesn't seem to be upto the level of some of the others for the desktop enviornment.
Excuse me if I'm starting to become frustrated here :)
Cheers Don
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