Re: Help selecting a distro

From: stonefoz (madfuzhat_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/20/05


Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:27:45 GMT

philo wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:35:27 -0700, antony7777 wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope this is the right group to postusuallyyquestion. :)
>>
>> I am currently planning to switch from MS Widnows to Linux, but I have
>> trouble selecting which distro is much suitable for me. Is there any
>> whitepaper/website to help me in selecting a distro suitable for me?
>>
>> Of course the first point of my requirement is a free O/S, but that
>> doesn't mean I can't try to get the best there is, right? :D
>>
>>
>
> Have a look at Vector Linux
>
> or else the old standard Fedora Core

go buy a copy of suse. unix is a large, and unfortunately unorganized group
of not necicarly interdependent programs that is usually left up to the
user to make work. being not more that a usefull, but large, toolback of
utilities and such, suse does a good job at connecting up things to make a
useable system out of it. not to say it's allway's right, there is always
around a thousand way's of doing things in unix, but suse picks one and
tries to make it easy. until you learn enough to muck with it, it'll run
fine



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