[olug] Newbie Linux Distro

[Charles Bird]

Hi there, I'm Charles& I'm new to the list, I'm moving to Omaha in a week or two so u will see me at meetings soon.
  As for a starter distro I would also say mandrake9.1 or 9.2, however this is only if the install is going on a machine that is up to the task. I would suggest 512MB RAM and at least 1Ghz for the processor as the Mandrake seems to be a system resource hog. Rolling the kernel helps a little. Thats my experience.
 I'm quite fond of knoppix live on old school machines, I have "Damn Small Linux" on a 133 with 64MB ram and no hard drive. It almost sounds too good to be true but one can really do alot with that and still get fairly good performance. Its a good Demo disk as its only 50MB and can go on those tiny CDRW's. 
 Hope this helps.. See ya!
 



----- Original Message -----
From: <thelarsons3 at cox.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:09:18 -0500
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Newbie Linux Distro

> > From: Brandon Lederer <brandon at tolkien-movies.com>
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> When I asked around about a year and a half ago (to get my wife running Linux) the concensus was Mandrake.  The install is completely painless and defaults set up very nice for a newbie.
> 
> Tim
> 
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