[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.




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