[olug] Newbie Linux Distro

[Jazzery Jaapar]

Fedora Core 1 is excellent for a newbie as well. Yum for package management or apt 
makes it even better. Install is almost faultless and easy enough. On top of that, 
it's pretty easy on the eyes (this makes a difference to a newbie).

-----Original Message-----
From: CM Miller [mailto:cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:25 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: RE: [olug] Newbie Linux Distro


--- 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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