Re: Which Flavour & Version?

From: Todd (tener_17_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:42:51 GMT

John John wrote:
> 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.
>
> Regards;
>
> John
>
I was in your shoes a few months ago and I tired Red Hat 9.0. I really
enjoyed it and found it easy to work with. I later installed SuSE 8.2
and found myself lost and confused. Red Hat just seemed to make more
sense to me. From what I gather Mandrake is a really popular distro,
but I have to recommend Red Hat.

Here's a Bittorrent site that has the ISO's

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html

Good luck!

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