[Lancaster] Help me select a distrob

[Martyn Welch]

On Friday 21 April 2006 10:37, Andy Smith wrote:
> BTW, my personal belief is that if you're new to Linux and want to
> know which distribution to use then use the one that the people
> around you are using, whatever that may be.  When you don't need as
> much help on a regular basis then it is time to look for others that
> may be more to your personal taste.

I have to agree with that.

I started with Mandrake (back in the good old days, when even revisions were 
stable and odd revisions weren't!), but mainly because that is what "Geek 
Support" (Cheers Darren :-) ) used, though at the time it was a good choice 
for a KDE desktop. Once I felt I was in the large expanses between newbie and 
guru (damn that's a _large_ area - still trekking through it) then I played 
around (Gentoo, Slackware, LFS - sort of, Debian). I have currently settled 
on my (poss. temporary) choice.

If you don't have close geek support then out of the two you pre-selected, I'd 
suggest that Mandriva will provide more wizardy hand holding, whilst Fedora 
may provide more web-based support for the individual not afraid of reading 
and fiddling. If you want wizardy hand holding, may I suggest that you also 
concider suse, it may be slow, but it possibly has an edge on this at the 
moment. If you want something more to fiddle with and learn about the guts, 
then concider Ubuntu as an (equal) alternative to Fedora. If you want to 
fiddle then try a few and use what feels good to you (of course balance this 
with available support)- that's all that really matters.

Martyn

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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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