[SWLUG] Re: Starting with Linux

[Dick Bain]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:13:46PM -0000 or thereabouts, Michael Parker wrote:
> 
>>I would echo the views that buying a computer and installing linux from
>>scratch is the way forward.
> <snip> 
> And then the rest of the LUG can sit back and tell us both
> where we went wrong. They're the computer professionals.

I resent that I am in no way professional except perhaps as a pain in 
the butt ;-)
Mepis has the quickest installer I have used and it works very well if 
you want a Debian install.
I, for my sins, use Mandrake cos it was the first one I tried and 
succeeded installing.
Dick