[olug] Newbie Linux Distro
thelarsons3 at cox.net
thelarsons3 at cox.net
Tue Jan 6 21:09:18 UTC 2004
> 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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