Which Linux..?

[pyrok]

I'm trying to figure out which Linux I should get. I've heard some good things about Mandrake, Red hat, and Correl, but which Linuxes would you all recomend? Why?

 

[FOBSIDE]

if youre a newbie to linux i recommend either redhat or mandrake. the install is the hardest part in my opinion. redhat and mandrake do a good job of making the install easy. plus redhat and mandrake seem to support hardware without having to compile extra drivers. you can look up more on linux here:

http://www.linuxnewbie.org

 

[ziggie]

After much research, I selected SuSE 7.1 and the install and help has been great, very easy.

 

[MJT2k]

If you are a newbie and looking for a gui in Linux then Red Hat or Mandrake are for you. But if you are looking for more power and stablity go with Slakware or Debian, they are both more command line based.

 

[CyberConan]

I am a newbie to linux too, and I have tried 5 different distro´s in less than 2 weeks. Definitely, I´d stay with Mandrake 8 or SuSE 7.1 (better wait and get SuSE 7.2 in 2 weeks)

Mandrake recongnized ALL MY HARDWARE (including my Radeon 64 DDR VIVO, my "win-printer" HP DeskJet 710C, and my keyboard with latin-american layout that no other distro was able to configure correctly). My USB wheel mouse worked fine right from the install menu...!

SuSE has a very nice utility to manage updates to the system, called YaST2, but I recommend to wait for distro Version 7.2, because it comes with kernel 2.4 as default, and XFree86 version 4.0.3 rather than 4.0.2 (it recognizes more hardware)

 

[Elledan]

I only use SuSe. Mandrake is nice to start with, but it lacks power and I got quickly tired of Redhat.

I'm currently using SuSe 7.1 on one desktop and two servers without any problems.

 

[goshdarnindie]

This discussion must take place weekly.

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