[Sussex] New & fairly incompetent Linux user

[Bradley Heath]

Surely the one and only holy grail in linux would be making your own 
distro from scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org)? :-).

(Hi, I'm Bradley, new to the list and all that.. Debian user and damn 
proud of it!! :-).

Stephen Williams wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:27, Paul Baines wrote:
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>>Hey People,
>>Ta for all the helpful advice. I was reassured to find that I've
>>already tried all of those suggestions so it must just be the norm for
>>crappy dial-up!
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>>Just wanted to throw a bone out for you all to chew on... 
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>>I'm thinking of buying a cheapo second-hand desktop to Linux-it (rid
>>that evil Microsoft beast from the face of the earth i say) and then
>>use for some fairly light work, and i'm mulling over which distro to
>>go with. My current (stereo-typed) views are as follows:
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>>Mandrake - Good for Linux-virgins as it has lots of nice GUI's and can
>>do lots for you but a bit restrictive and cumbersome once you know
>>what you are doing. (Particularly unimpressed by most of the Mandrake
>>Control Centre progs). So, I want a change...
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>Never tried it, but it seems to be popular with new Linux users.
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>>Debian - Awe-inspiring, seems to be the holy-grail to most Linux
>>enthusiasts that I've spoken to. But needs a decent web-connection i
>>think?
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>I think you've been paying too much attention to Steve Dobson here. It's
>not to say that Debian isn't a good distro - it's excellent - but the
>holy grail of Linux is of course Gentoo.
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>>Red Hat - Linux people doing their best to immitate Microsoft.
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>Quite.
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>>SuSe - Not really sure about this one, not met any users but seems
>>fairly popular...
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>Very comprehensive and easy to use for the newcomer. I'd recommend this
>one if you're new to Linux.
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>>Gentoo - Bit quirky, used by the bloke who introduced me to Linux but
>>again I'd appreciate any info...
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>The one and only holy grail...... I think it's great and I'm far from
>being a linux guru.
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>>Knoppix - Good for diagnostics. Thats it.
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>Great for demonstrating to sceptical M$ addicts.
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>>Any others?
>>So, basically... I'd appreciate any suggestions to correct my
>>misconceptions and show me the way! Go on, convince me...
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>>Paul Baines.
>>(Still using his cacky dial-up internet connection).
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>Steve Williams.
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