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Choosing a distro
Name: hamburglar Date: March 10, 2004 at 11:47:08 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: celeron 256
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I am merely looking for suggestions and/or recomendations for distros to use. I am a new linux user and any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
Name: mosaddique Date: March 10, 2004 at 13:33:33 Pacific
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Mandrake gets my vote. Very easy to install.
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Response Number 2
Name: capt Date: March 10, 2004 at 17:11:26 Pacific
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I am very new to Linux. I have tried Mandrake, and it was OK. I just installed Fedora this afternoon to try it. I must say that Fedora is very impressive and the Linux O/S I am going to use.
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Response Number 3
Name: jconner Date: March 10, 2004 at 23:20:52 Pacific
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I have to say as a first Distro Mandrake is great! I use Red Hat 9 and Mandrake. Very happy with both of them. Mandrake was easier to install and configure. Red Hat was my first Distro which I installed around 3 mos ago (a newbie) and is has not crashed yet. Runs 24/7... I installed mandrake on a system that has a firewire external dvd writer amongst other hardware and everything installed and configured correctly. I have to say that the install was easier then Windoze.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: March 11, 2004 at 06:47:47 Pacific
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For a breakdown and comparison of all the major GNU/Linux distros:
Summary: Well, a distro question, I rarely get involved. I myself am a Gentoo guy but would not recommend it for a newbie unless they wanted to spend alot of time and learn a good deal during the often diffi...
Summary: The Linux Cyrillic HOWTO http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/linux/Cyrillic-HOWTO.html SuSE has always had a pretty good record for european support (I think it started in Germany) but ...
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