Re: Linux for Dummies

From: Scruff (scruff_at_123mail.org)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:38:13 GMT

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:20:25 +0000, W7DAH wrote:

> I've had SuSE 7.3 on a partition of my HDD for sometime now. Is there
> another commericailly packaged brand that a NEWBIE might fine less
> painful?
>
> Thx,
> D.A.

Can't go wrong with Mandrake 9.1. It HAS to be the most noob friendly of
em all. I used Mandrake from 8.1, 9, and 9.1 to cut my teeth on. Now I'm
using Slackware 9 with a custom kernel. Mandrake was a decent learning
tool, but if you really want to learn linux switch to Slack after you get
comfortable.

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