Re: Which Flavour & Version?

From: Billy Watt (billywatt_at_dontspammebtinternet.com)
Date: 09/03/03


Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:09:59 +0000 (UTC)

In news:abo5b.4010$Ej.647514@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca,
John John <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> rambled:

> All right all you Linux experts... I am an advanced Windows user but
> I want to explore the Linux OS (stand alone for the time being).
> Which flavour & version number would you recommend. I was thinking
> of buying a disk set on ebay for $5-$10. I don't mind paying that
> little as opposed to have to download hundreds of MBs on a slow (45
> kbps) internet connection. What would you recommend, Mandrake,
> Redhat, SUSE etc. ? And any particular version over another? If you
> feel that I would be just as well off downloading a version on the
> net can you provide a link and estimated download size?
>
> Oh yeah, I intend to install this on an IDE drive of its own on a Dell
> Dimension 8100, Pentium 4 1300 MHz, 512 MB RAM. Thanks in advance for
> your suggestions.
>

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Billy



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