The Best Linux?

[norledge]

I would like your opinions on which Linux package to buy. I have had some experience using UNIX, I took a class in "C" language, ten years ago. That's a nutshell of my experience.

I think I am interested in Mandrake or Suse, full or professional versions. So, tell me what your experiences have been,and why you favor one package over the others, installation, ease of use, stability, support, dual-boot problematic, features, included software.

Thanks for your time.

 

[IamDavid]

Mandrake for beginners.
Red Hat for intermediate.

 

[Bluga]

RH.

Industry standard.

 

[cirrus1]

My personal preference is RedHat, but I also like SuSE. RedHat is for the more for the one that want to play a bit.

 

[andri]

First piece of advise: avoid Mandrake.
If you consifer yourself to be a die-hard UNIX guru 😉 then take Debian. RH for the rest of us.

 

[Atroz]

HI,

Personally, I've like Mandrake. It's worked well for me. I just downloaded the Redhat 7.1 beta though and I'm about to try it.

Remember that you can also download these distros, so if you have the bandwidth and a CD Burner (you can also do a net-install, but I prefer to have the CDs), you can go that route and play around with various distributions until you find one you like.

 

[Tiger]

I've run RH 5.0-5.2-6.0, Mandrake 6.0-7.2 with MD 7.2 being the most recent of the bunch.
Mandrake 7.2 is a step backwards. The GUI install is just a large PITA. KDE 2 is a whole bunch slower than KDE 1.x.x. If they wanted to look and feel more like Windows they've succeeded. The one thing 7.2 has going for it is easy hardware recognition but that's just about it.

RH and Mandrake are good distro's for new users to cut their teeth on. Sooner or later you'll want to move up to Slackware or Debian.