[Gloucs] distro advice

[Guy Edwards02]

[thinks] Maybe it's time to update those glug website 2002 help articles
with a FAQ or two. Would help reduce my embarrassment too as things have
changed quite a bit since then. 

Anyway... Grab a few on CD and try them out for a day or two each.
Settle with the one you find works best with your hardware and seems
easiest to work with.

You might want to steer towards the desktop orientated distributions and
stay away from the more awkward but configurable ones.

So think more:
 fedora
 mandrake
 suse

And think less:
 Linux from scratch

Hope it helps
Guy





-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Faraday [mailto:tom at faraday.eclipse.co.uk] 
Sent: 10 February 2005 17:17
To: gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Gloucs] distro advice


Hi,

long time lurker, first time poster.

im looking to get into linux and was wondering which distributions you
would all reccomend for the home user setting. I need reliability,
stability, decent hardware support and also something which will
actually teach me linux rather than pretend its windows.

regards,
tom

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