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by **BlueFusionX** on Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:55 pm

You should get Red Hat. ITs very powerful (standard for servers) and has very nice start for newbies at unix. So its a win-win situation.

by **arckeda** on Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:15 am

With SUSE you can get windows and luinx on the same computer. Wink

by **al_tyranny** on Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:40 am

arckeda wrote:With SUSE you can get windows and luinx on the same computer.

You can do that with any distribution of Linux ...

arckeda wrote:Which i find useful.

Good to hear. Now begone, spammer!

by **Bugs42** on Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:29 am

I'd say Red Hat. It's the first distro I learned how to use, and it seems pretty good for n00bs.

by **nagual** on Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:12 pm

I would reccomend ubuntu as well. I used it for a good while, and it has excellent support, is pretty easy to learn, and also you can get the disks for it absolutly free, or just download them.

by **ddapue** on Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:26 am

Lots of you seem to be arguing about software limitation in Linux.
GNU/Linux has more software than windows. There are about 10 alternatives in linux for every single piece of ms software.

To see the full potential of this Linux distros can be classified by their package managers. pm is similar to ms setup installer. There are two main pm: deb and rpm. If you are using Debian, Ubuntu you will get "deb", if you have RH, SuSE, Mandriva you have "rpm"
choosing the right pm will give you the distro you want.

interesting article about installing sotware GNU vs MS comparison
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10165[/url]

by **rmorella** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:14 pm

For a newbie, I would point them towards a SuSe Live CD or Mandrake Move as the easiest and least hair-pulling way to go.

The biggest point of frustration/joy for a newbie is going to be hardware detection. If their video or sound hardware does not work right away, the excitement of the land of Linux turns to the nightmare of '"what the heck does 'no screens found' mean.....you're displaying the message on a screen you ____ computer......."

by **Narf** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:53 pm

Ubuntu is the best distro for a newbie and imho the best desktop distro at all.

by **ravenhair** on Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:24 pm

sigh......

Welcome to linux! want to start a lovely heated debate?

ask which distro is best.

Everyone starts somewhere and anyone who give a new user grief for lack of knowledge needs to go hide. We all were there,

The best advice I can give is pick the one your friends are using. Figure out who'll you'll ask for help and make sure they know the distro. Saying "hey Tom how do you...." is what you'll end up doing a lot. We all did, hell I'm a RHCE get paid to play with linux and I still lean over to my coworkers : "hey how do you set an alias??"

Wanna really try to understand Linux?

Roll your own

Download and compile everything from the kernel to gaim. This is fun but time consuming and really only teach's you how to run a compiler.
(hint: ./configure && make && make install)

Best of Luck
RavenHair

by **ddapue** on Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:35 pm

Actually if you want a Linux Distro that is recommended by the FSF then get ututo-e based on Gentoo, developed in Argentina. It is 100% free of proprietary-software.

by **mm_freak** on Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:11 am

ddapue wrote:To see the full potential of this Linux distros can be classified by their package managers. pm is similar to ms setup installer. There are two main pm: deb and rpm. If you are using Debian, Ubuntu you will get "deb", if you have RH, SuSE, Mandriva you have "rpm"
choosing the right pm will give you the distro you want.

RPM and Deb are both not package managers, but rather package formats. The major package manager for Deb-packages is Apt (used by Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions). There is no direct package manager for RPM packages. SuSE comes with YaST, which partially acts like a package manager. Also you've forgotten another important package manger: Portage.

by **radky** on Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:53 pm

Ubuntu Kubuntu & Debian are the best distro ...they are the best desktop distro at all

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