Re: Distro question
From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:26:09 +0100
In alt.os.linux, Brian uttered these immortal words:
> I've been wanting to switch to linux for awhile now but am getting
> confused about which distro to try. I've heard great things about
> Mandrake but I've been hearing good things about Fedora also. On a
> Windows geek scale of 1 to 10 I'm a 7 (which would probably be around 2
> for linux... lol) I've heard that mandrake may be having some financial
> problems so would it be wise to learn on it?
If you want to earn some extra Linux geek points I'd second Jeffrey's advice
of Slackware and throw Gentoo into the ring.
Gentoo is compiled from source and is tailored to your own personal PC. It
has no installer as such but the install instructions are excellent and is
a great learning experience (second only to Linux from Scratch I suppose).
I found the Gentoo learning experience better than the Slackware one in some
ways. Because you're learning stuff as you follow the instructions, by the
time you have a bootable system you've learnt a lot without knowing it.
-- Andy.
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