Re: [uug] Good Newbie Distro?

[quickbrownfox]

In my very limited SuSE experience, the FTP installer isn't the problem, 
it's the lack of mirrors with decent connection speeds.  It always 
seemed to time out, whenever I tried it at work.  I finally broke down 
and used a recursive wget to download the whole thing to a machine at 
work overnight (~7.3 GB), and it worked great after that (20-30 minutes 
total).  I got Hans to mirror this to the UUG ftp server a while back, 
but something seems to be up with the ftp server.  I keep getting 
refused connections.

So, if you want to use SuSE, and your friend is on-campus, I could let 
you use my mirror.  Contact me off list.

Lloyd Brown

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Jacob Albretsen wrote:

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:30, Hyrum Wright wrote:
 

I don't mean to renew the age old distro wars, but....
   

Naw, at least it will be on topic.

 

I've got a friend who is fed up with Windows, and when I offered Linux
as a suggestion, he was very favorable to the idea.  I'm trying to
figure out what would be a good distro to install on his machine
tonight.  Given that he is leaving town tomorrow for the summer, and I
won't be around to help (except via email), is there a distro which
would be the easiest for him to use, and for me to install?
   

I would recommend Mandrake first for newbies, but that just me.   Others would 
say Fedora.  Also if you want to buy it, SuSE is a good beginner distro too.  
I've never been able to get the FTP install to work / finish right.

 

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