installing linux suse to a gateway

[Clevee]

my sister got a new computer and gave me her old gateway. I am going to instal linux suse on it so i can try and learn linux. I just wanted to know if someone that know what they are looking at can tell me if this is the right download...SLED-10-x86-CD1, up to CD5... just wanted to know if they think thats the right installer or what not. I've already downloaded the Active ISO software to burn the image to a cd, and if you have any tips it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

 

[Brazen]

Number 1, ImgBurn is the best software for burning ISOs to a cd. Number 2, SLED sucks. Go with Ubuntu, or even easier for something like this is CentOS 4.5 and choose the 'minimal' set of packages, then install webmin to administer the firewall.

edit: oops, saw 'gateway' and thought 'router.' Ok, number 2 is: stay away from SLED and use Ubuntu. Thirdly, read the FAQ stickied in the OS category.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ubuntu sucks, go with Open Suse.

 

[Nothinman]

Ubuntu sucks, go with Open Suse.

Always gotta be the odd man out, eh?

 

[nweaver]

rule to live by number 387. RPM = teh devil

 

[Nothinman]

Well RPM isn't that bad itself, the real problem is that it took RH forever to start using a decent front-end over top of it and even then they ignored apt4rpm and went with yum for reasons that are beyond my comprehension. I have absolutely no idea what OpenSuSE supports on top of RPM besides YaST though so I can't comment on that.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Ubuntu sucks, go with Open Suse.

Always gotta be the odd man out, eh?

Nah, just being silly. I don't mind Ubuntu much.

I think I'm going to install Fedora 7 though. Eventually.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Get Opensuse 10.2 over SLED. Its a lot newer, its stable like SLED, and you get access to much more software through guru and packman repositories. You'd probaly be a lot happier with it.