new to linux, which flavor should I go with?

[jeremytaffy]

SUse, Red hat....????

 

[mithrilhall]

I'm going to assume you're coming from Windows so I would suggest Mandrake, RedHat, Suse. ====================================
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[jeremytaffy]

Which one specifically? I am installing as base.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

All are good. Since you can download for free, I would suggest to try one, if you don't like it go to the next. I just bought SUSE and am going to install that shortly here. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

http://www.koldark.net

Please, if you find my post useful, let me know.

 

[mithrilhall]

I've never installed Suse but I know Mandrake's install is really easy. Redhat's is just about as easy as Mandrakes. ====================================
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[stoolpigeon]

I tried a couple distros and couldn't get them to work.

Suse was the first that I got to go pretty painlessly. It is a very nice distro and I really like how it handles adding and removing software with YaST2. That is a very nice program that is very similar to add/remove software in windows.

I've done Redhat since and found that install to be very nice as well. It seems to set up hardware and such even better than Suse. Especially things like the monitor. On the other hand the RPM thing can be a pain sometimes. You try to install something but it wont because it has dependencies so you go find the dependency items but they don't install because they have dependencies and so on.

But Redhat and Suse got me up and running and I've learned a lot just in the last couple of months using Linux for the first time.

 

[mikeEd]

Mandrake. Having used that and RedHat I can definitely say Mandrake is more newbie friendly. While both are very easy to install, Mandrake has a few extra utilities and sets up more automatically for you than RedHat does. It's a great distro to start out with.

 

[TH555]

I started with Linux trying to install Caldera, but it wouldn't load. A friend hadRed Hat v5, so I installed that with no problems and I've been using RH ever since (currently on 7.3). I tried mandrake and hated it... Too confining.

For software installations and updates I use Ximian Red Carpet (Gnome) (most of the time). It handles dependencies great. I usually find that by the time a security errata comes out I already have the patch installed, since I run Red Carpet about once a week.

I hope this helps.

Todd :>
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[MisterE]

I'm also new to linux, so new that my question is,

Whats the best install guide you 've come across?? I haven't even installed it yet. I've descided to go with RedHat 7.1 for the mo'

Cheers for the opinions

MisterE

 

[danielhozac]

RedHat's own installation guide explains it very well. Since you're going to use RedHat, I'd strongly recommend it. //Daniel

 

[MisterE]

Cheers for all that from the linux newbie!!