[olug] Newbie Linux Distro

[thelarsons3 at cox.net]

> 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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Tim & Alethea