silverpig
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Originally posted by: Brentx
For a beginner I would recommend SimplyMEPIS 3.3 or Ubuntu. Both distro's usually work great right out of the box. Myself, I am a big fan of Ubuntu and other Debian based distrobutions because of Apt-Get, and it's GUI counterpart Synaptic. Ubuntu and Mepis both have awesome package management systems. I have tried Fedora Core before, and other RPM based distros, but I don't like Yum as much as apt-get. However people have started to use yum extender, which seems to be almost good as synaptic. The only Distro I would stay away from is Gentoo if you are a beginner, because you have to compile everything from scratch.
You really have to play around with whatever distrobution you like the best. Burn maybe Fedora Core 4, SuSe, Ubuntu, and Mepis onto some CD's and take some time to try out each one. That's the best way to learn how Linux works.
Not true. You can do a binary install of most things