I recommend you give Knoppix a try first. It's dirt easy to install and configure (it pretty much does that itself), it's Debian based, and if you wind up not liking it, you can move to SuSE or Fedora just as easily. The best answer to your question is, ``Try what I like, and if you don't like it, try something else!''
Just be sure to set up / and /home on separate partitions. Mike On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:37:33AM -0700, Ammon J Christiansen wrote: > I want to know what distros I could try out and what would work for me. > > People throw the terms around slackware, debian, mandrake, netbsd and > freebsd. If you could inform me on your experience and how you think > these would work for me, I would appreciate it. also let me know if the > club has the cds for these distros. I know mandrake and redhat are in > iso form on the uug site and I imagine they're all available via ftp > from somewhere. > > I know everyone has their own opinions about what is best. I was > wondering if you could let me know some of the pros and cons of > different distros and specifically how hard they would be for me to > start out with. I've been using Redhat for about a year. I like ease > of new package installation and a good gui interface with email, ftp, > web browser clients and also ssh, ftp, web, php serverside stuff. > > Thanks for your input > Ammon > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies -- .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D Hands-free mobile phones: blurring the distinction between schizophrenia and technology.
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