Linux Newbie, Which One?? Suse,Mandrake,RedHat,etc...

[delic]

Im a looking to finally get a linux box running since I finally have a new computer and enough hard drive space.. Im not sure which one to get.. Im not really even sure the difference between them all..

 

[LuckyTaxi]

do a search. this has been answered many many times in this forum.
I prefer Mandrake and Freebsd

 

[AkumaBao]

I found www.linux.org to be very informative.

 

[delic]

Alright i did a search and now I see my total redundancy!!! Sorry guys, anyway I found a lot of links
in the already posted threads...

Thanks for the recommendations...

But I do have a new question.. What's with the .ISO files?? Are these files legal??? If they charge say $50 in the
store, why do they offer free downloadable ISO files??

 

[TheVrolok]

iso's are just like cd images.. Basically, linux distro's are free of charge, the only reason you pay in stores is for the cost of distrubution, packaging, advertisement, manuals(tho they do also come in file format on the iso's), and most importantly tech support. You don't get that with just DLing the iso's. Also, I'm sure some of the store sales help out the development teams.

 

[jmatt]

http://www.armed.net/what.htm

http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=49715&b=uk

Armed Linux is a new Linux distribution meant for first-time users and people who want to run Linux as a secondary operating system. No complex partitioning is necessary to install and run Armed Linux; just boot to a (DOS) command prompt and run a simple batch file. Hardware configuration is simple, too, as most common hardware items should be recognized at boot time. Armed Linux supports RPM-compatible applications in addition to typical source and binary packages.
The Download Now link will redirect you to an FTP directory containing all files (34 in total) necessary for an Armed Linux installation. Most of the files are 4.8MB in size; the total size for all downloaded files is 187MB. Be sure that all downloaded files end up in one root directory named "/armed" then run the "armed.exe" executable file to begin installation. You must have a total of 690MB free disk space to run Armed Linux. If running Windows 95 or 98, please note that you must boot to a Safe-mode command prompt in order for Armed Linux to run properly.

Note: Armed Linux is also available as a single 187MB file; click here or here to download. A fast Internet connection and/or a download manager are strongly recommended for downloading a file of this size. This single archive will extract automatically to an "/armed" directory.

Requirements
486-33, Windows 3.x/95/98 or DOS 6.0, 8MB RAM, 690MB disk space

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