[olug] Newbie Linux Distro

[CM Miller]

--- Brandon Lederer <brandon at tolkien-movies.com>
wrote:
>> Im going to help a linux newbie set up his first
>> distro.  But I am unsure what 
>> to give him.  My personal best experiences lie in
>> Gentoo and Debian.  
>> 
>> Gentoo takes way too long and is a little advanced.
>> Debian is good, but stable is SO OLD, and
relatively
>> useless..... and unstable 
>> and testing are really buggy.
>> 
>> So What would everyone reccomend?  and WHY?
>> 


>I would recommend these for a newbie 

>Gnoppix with Gnome for Desktop Manager 
>http://www.gnoppix.org/

>Knoppix with KDE for the Desktop Manager 
>http://www.knoppix.org/

>Easy to use and easy package management.

BTW, I would be willing to burn a few of these to give
away to a good home to those who aren't up to the
immediate challenge of running Linux.  



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