Re: Looking for the best (free) Linux distro (LiveCD or Install CD)

From: darwinst (darwinist_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/31/05


Date: 30 May 2005 17:30:08 -0700

dunric@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ok, so I've been playing around with various Linux distros for awhile
> now, and so far I've settled on three:
>
> Fedora Core 3
> UBuntu 5.04
> PCLinuxOS 8.1a

If for no other reason than there are more people using it (but there
are plenty of other reasons), go with Ubuntu, it's everything a desktop
linux should be (at least as far as any of them are at the moment).

> I'm not looking for anything specific in any Linux distros, just
> something that has GNOME/KDE, Firefox, OpenOffice and a few other
> applications.
>
> So what's the best (free) Linux distro out there?
>
> I'm not partial to any one distro, whether it's Debian based, Slackware
> based or Red Hat/Gentoo based.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul



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