Best Linux distro for noob?

[civad]

originally posted by: vocabulaic
I run kde/gnome/WM on my redhat machine - wm for me, gnome for the girlfriend, and kde for those kids that can't even figure out windows that use it...

One advantage of having a GF who is familiar/ comfortable with Linux...(atleast in my case)

My gf typed ls -la in my home directory and found out that I had a folder called .p0rn 🙂

 

[Bladesonfire]

lol civad. Perhaps now it all depends on better naming schemes 😉

 

[Tbirdkid]

the best linux i found was NONE. stay with microsoft. just until linux comes out with a better way to assign drivers in a smoother transition and when you can actually use a couple of apps without haveing to use konsole for EVERYTHING.

 

[yruffostsif]

I'm not looking to switch, my job revolves around MS products....this is just to expand my knowledge, do something different for a change.

I loaded up RH 9.1 on a P3 800, 256M Ram, 40GB HD, the installer worked flawlessly, now to just dive in...

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
the best linux i found was NONE. stay with microsoft. just until linux comes out with a better way to assign drivers in a smoother transition and when you can actually use a couple of apps without haveing to use konsole for EVERYTHING.

I pity you if you thought that you had to use konsole to launch an app, the "start menu" for KDE is that really decorative letter "K" in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Click it to see apps that you can run.

HTH

 

[lowtech1]

Knoppix - (Debian ofspring) Run live from CD, da best auto hardware detection system, 2 different browsers, email, OpenOffice, K3b CD burning software, XMMS player, and much more software (total of 2 GB of apps compress to fit a CD).

Damn Small Linux - (Knoppix ofspring) live CD with Links & Mozilla Firebird browser, XMMS, Rdesktop, Monkey Web Server, and much more. It makes an excellent system diagnostic tool or terminal boot disk for thin clients, and all of that fit into 50 Megs.

Gnoppix - (Knoppix/Morphix ofspring) a weaker variant of Knoppix that borrowed some of the idea from Morphix and use Gnome instead of KDE.

Mandrake ? Low learning curve for Windows user, with excellent documentations.

Red Hat ? Almost as easy to use & learn as Mandrake.

SUSE ? I found that it is slightly easier & nicer than Red Hat, however it cost money.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: jimmyl930

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Any recent version of Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, and Knoppix are very easy to set up and use.

Which one of those would run better on a slower system?

Thanks.

Knoppix by far the best for a slower systerm as compare to the above distros. There are many others mini distro that are design to run on much older hardware such as 386s, but I prefer Damn Small Linux because it very fast, small & inherited the auto hardware detection system from Knoppix.

What are the minimum requirements for Damn Small Linux?
As of 0.4.5, DSL runs comfortably in X on a Pentium 100Mhz with 16MB of RAM and a swap partition; without a swap partition 24MB.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Am I the only n00b that started using linux *seriously* with gentoo or debian? (gentoo myself) 😕

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Am I the only n00b that started using linux *seriously* with gentoo or debian? (gentoo myself) 😕

I started with debian & mandrake 🙂

 

[cleverhandle]

Red Hat 6 (?, briefly) --> Slackware (4 - 8) --> LFS --> Debian and BSD's

 

[civad]

I started with LFS as a n00b.
(I was thiat was true 😛)