What is the best free version of linux that will download in less then a day?

[Xionide]

 

[Derango]

Any distro, as long as you have broadband.

 

[Xionide]

ditrobuter?

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: UberVoodooFX9700
ditrobuter?

get this. 30 meg for base install, then you can add all the packages you want later. it isn't very easy though.

 

[cleverhandle]

Slackware is one of the few distros whose standard distribution fits on one CD. Good distro to learn Linux on as well.

 

[Topher]

Peanut Linux is a good one for newbies and is only a 210Meg download. There are some other ones out there that fit onto one or more floppies but you'd be without a GUI, so it all depends on how well you know linux.

 

[GoHAnSoN]

um...if u cannt download it in one day(24 hours), please change your isp...
it's ovbiously too slow...

 

[magomago]

I spent a month downloading Mandrake 9.0

If you are looking at a quick d/l (less than 100 megs) chances are it won't be too friendly to beginners

 

[Calibrator]

It really depends on how "user friendly" you want it to be. Debian has been nothing but frustration for me. Redhat 8.0 "free download" is much more slick but when you search the web for help doing that small thing you need to be done redhat may stray from the norm as far as Linuxes go(because of the automation). Slackware is about like Debian. I am leaning more towards SUSE. It has the underpennings of Debian but is more "user friendly. When you cannot get your system to connect to the web and have trouble configuring all the config files and permissions you will apperciate a little automation.

Go ahead and break down and cough up the 40 bucks. It will be worth it.


Free download....at this point
Redhat.

 

[Sunner]

Debian is very easy to use, but the learning curve is quite steep for a Linux newbie.

If you want something easy...do you know anyone with broadband and a CD burner?
Sounds like the easiest path if you want something newbie friendly.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Calibrator
It really depends on how "user friendly" you want it to be. Debian has been nothing but frustration for me. Redhat 8.0 "free download" is much more slick but when you search the web for help doing that small thing you need to be done redhat may stray from the norm as far as Linuxes go(because of the automation). Slackware is about like Debian. I am leaning more towards SUSE. It has the underpennings of Debian but is more "user friendly. When you cannot get your system to connect to the web and have trouble configuring all the config files and permissions you will apperciate a little automation.

Go ahead and break down and cough up the 40 bucks. It will be worth it.


Free download....at this point
Redhat.

suse netinstall floppies are free for download, and the packages get downloaded during install. why do people dismiss this as being inferior to a cd with everything on it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Calibrator
It really depends on how "user friendly" you want it to be. Debian has been nothing but frustration for me. Redhat 8.0 "free download" is much more slick but when you search the web for help doing that small thing you need to be done redhat may stray from the norm as far as Linuxes go(because of the automation). Slackware is about like Debian. I am leaning more towards SUSE. It has the underpennings of Debian but is more "user friendly. When you cannot get your system to connect to the web and have trouble configuring all the config files and permissions you will apperciate a little automation.

Go ahead and break down and cough up the 40 bucks. It will be worth it.


Free download....at this point
Redhat.

suse netinstall floppies are free for download, and the packages get downloaded during install. why do people dismiss this as being inferior to a cd with everything on it?

Because they do not have to spend the $.10 to buy the cd, they do not have a very outdated distro, and they do not pollute as much when they toss out the old media.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Calibrator
It really depends on how "user friendly" you want it to be. Debian has been nothing but frustration for me. Redhat 8.0 "free download" is much more slick but when you search the web for help doing that small thing you need to be done redhat may stray from the norm as far as Linuxes go(because of the automation). Slackware is about like Debian. I am leaning more towards SUSE. It has the underpennings of Debian but is more "user friendly. When you cannot get your system to connect to the web and have trouble configuring all the config files and permissions you will apperciate a little automation.

Go ahead and break down and cough up the 40 bucks. It will be worth it.


Free download....at this point
Redhat.

suse netinstall floppies are free for download, and the packages get downloaded during install. why do people dismiss this as being inferior to a cd with everything on it?

Because they do not have to spend the $.10 to buy the cd, they do not have a very outdated distro, and they do not pollute as much when they toss out the old media.

and because if you have dialup, apt-get install xfree86-common takes forever, whereas you can get a whole CD overnight
(yeah i used deb, but only b/c I don't know suse )

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Calibrator
It really depends on how "user friendly" you want it to be. Debian has been nothing but frustration for me. Redhat 8.0 "free download" is much more slick but when you search the web for help doing that small thing you need to be done redhat may stray from the norm as far as Linuxes go(because of the automation). Slackware is about like Debian. I am leaning more towards SUSE. It has the underpennings of Debian but is more "user friendly. When you cannot get your system to connect to the web and have trouble configuring all the config files and permissions you will apperciate a little automation.

Go ahead and break down and cough up the 40 bucks. It will be worth it.


Free download....at this point
Redhat.

suse netinstall floppies are free for download, and the packages get downloaded during install. why do people dismiss this as being inferior to a cd with everything on it?

Because they do not have to spend the $.10 to buy the cd, they do not have a very outdated distro, and they do not pollute as much when they toss out the old media.

and because if you have dialup, apt-get install xfree86-common takes forever, whereas you can get a whole CD overnight
(yeah i used deb, but only b/c I don't know suse )

1. We dont care about dialup users.
2. You can tell the system to install a bunch of stuff, go to bed, and have it all done in the morning.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
1. We dont care about dialup users.

Some of us can't get anything else.

2. You can tell the system to install a bunch of stuff, go to bed, and have it all done in the morning.

That's the way I always did my apt-get dist-upgrade stuff.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
1. We dont care about dialup users.

Some of us can't get anything else.

2. You can tell the system to install a bunch of stuff, go to bed, and have it all done in the morning.

That's the way I always did my apt-get dist-upgrade stuff.

There are services such as LinuxCD.org that will send you a disk of you favorite distro & all upto date apps for a small fee. However I still belive that Debain net install ++ apt-get is the way to go.

 

[skyking]

That is how all my freebsd installs have been done. I have never seen an install cd that did not say "microsoft" on it somewhere

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

1. We dont care about dialup users.

sad but true

suckers

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

1. We dont care about dialup users.

sad but true

suckers

Sad but true that nobody in the US gives a sh!t about providing decent broadband to people anywhere but in the big cities, where they can keep their backbones small (providing slower service and severely capped uploads) and milk their cash cows to no end. Guess I should move to Europe, huh?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

1. We dont care about dialup users.

sad but true

suckers

Sad but true that nobody in the US gives a sh!t about providing decent broadband to people anywhere but in the big cities, where they can keep their backbones small (providing slower service and severely capped uploads) and milk their cash cows to no end. Guess I should move to Europe, huh?

broadband in the uk sucks, and in the rest of the countries, the intellectual property gestapo will spy on what you're downloading

i'm considering moving to dsl so i can deal with a local provider instead of a big lousy cable monopoly, too bad for the same price i only get 256/256 :disgust:

at least i can get a static ip, no server restrictions, and know the sysadmin

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

1. We dont care about dialup users.

sad but true

suckers

Sad but true that nobody in the US gives a sh!t about providing decent broadband to people anywhere but in the big cities, where they can keep their backbones small (providing slower service and severely capped uploads) and milk their cash cows to no end. Guess I should move to Europe, huh?

I live in BFE and I get DSL.

 

[civad]

Originally Posted by: magomago
I spent a month downloading Mandrake 9.0

Wow!

 

[civad]

As I mentioned in another post, Vector Linux is worth a try.

Its based on Slackware, so it could not be anything but user-friendly.

(I am switching between Debian and Slack these days. FINALLY got rid of all rpm-based distro's. Will decide which to continue between Debian and Slack)