Which Linux you guys recommend?

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By: ELP - 28th October 2003 at 03:22

Everybody has their own favorite. Guess its a comfort zone thing. I use the latest Mandrake and love it.

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By: Flood - 27th October 2003 at 21:48

Yes I am…

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By: Nermal - 27th October 2003 at 10:22

You ain’t here now kiddo! Nermal:D

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By: Flood - 26th October 2003 at 02:34

She showed, you didn’t. And I know whose company I prefer…;)

Flood.

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By: Nermal - 25th October 2003 at 18:22

Originally posted by Flood
Sorry. I have let you all down – think it is the lack of Anna this evening. Sigh. Flood.

Yeah? So whats new!

Maybe she’ll show her pretty face this evening and you blasted star-struck lovers can moon over each other and leave the rest of us in peace. Hopefully. – Nermal

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By: Sherlock - 25th October 2003 at 17:05

I think that Suse cannot be downloaded for free from the net like all other Linux distros. If you want it you have to buy it. This is enough for me to not recommend Suse.

For a Linux newbie I would recommend Mandrake 9, it is the easiest Linux distro that I ever installed, and it automatically detected my sound card, network card, modem and everything else. After installation I didn’t even need to do any configuring.

If you’ve been using Linux for a few months and feel ambitious, then you might want to give Debian a try. Harder to install and use than Mandrake and requires more configuring (the command line).

Basically when choosing a distro, it depends on you. Do you want to just install it, and then never have to configure anything again? If so, use Mandrake or Redhat. If you like getting into the nitty gritty and have a lot of time to spare, then use Debian or Slackware.

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By: futurshox - 25th October 2003 at 13:13

Another vote for SuSE Linux here. Been using it for a few years now and it’s pretty good. I’m the kind of person that just wants to get on and do things on the computer rather than be constantly fiddling with the OS, and SuSE works great for me in that respect.

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By: dhfan - 25th October 2003 at 00:12

Speaking from very little experience and playing silly b*ggers on an IBM laptop (5 operating systems, 6 soon) and having installed a couple of flavours of SuSE and Mandrake, my simplistic views are; SuSE installs reasonably easily, and given a little time, I’m beginning to work out how to do things and tweak bits. Mandrake is an absolute doddle to install but I haven’t managed to change a single setting yet.
I’m a PC mangler for a living but it’s all Windows (and previously DOS) in it’s various rubbish incarnations so it’s a bit of a culture shock with absolutely no previous experience of other operating systems.
I haven’t done much for a few months as my stone-age PC had a terminal hard drive crash (note to all – do backups), the merely elderly replacement I cobbled together seemed fine until I got ADSL when it decided it wouldn’t play, and this Athlon 1300 is partly in the case and partly on the table.
Hopefully, in the next few weeks, I’ll get around to playing with Linux again. I might download Red Hat to try but currently SuSE 8.2 Pro is the best I’ve found.

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