- What distribution to install
- Posted by Shade on December 9th, 2003
i have installed redhat 9.0 on my machine but i am not sure that is
what is right for me. here is what i have hardware wise
p4 2.0ghz
intel motherboard with ac97 onbord audio and onbord ethernet
1 gig ddr ram
geforce 4 128 meg card
viewsonic a90 monitor
2 western digital hd a 80 gig and a 100 gig both 7200 rpm ide
hp 200i dvd burner.
cendine dvd rom
epson 785epx printer(usb)
hp scanner(usb)
microsoft wheel mouse(usb)
microsoft office keyboard(usb)
I am trying to get somthing that will help me to learn linux. i am a
pc geek but dont know much at all about linux
thanks in advance.
- Posted by AJ on December 9th, 2003
Shade wrote:
Slackware.
- Posted by Amanda L. Rossmiller on December 9th, 2003
i'm running gentoo, and it's pretty nice.
nicest thing is you don't install binaries,
your machine builds everything from source.
a nice extra christmas bonus i guess 
- Posted by Kenny McCormack on December 9th, 2003
In article <WjdBb.7008$Ho3.3537@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
AJ <Invalid@local.Invalid.org> wrote:
Let me put in a vote for Knoppix (do the HD install).
Knoppix is the only out there (IMHO&LE) that just automatically recognizes
all the new hardware. It's great.
- Posted by Amanda L. Rossmiller on December 10th, 2003
- Posted by AJ on December 10th, 2003
Kenny McCormack wrote:
Hardware recognization is essential, but I think the OP wanted some distro
which would help him learn Linux. Slackware while also being very good at
Hardware recognization is the distro with no pretty (and IMHO Dumb)
wizards, no spoon feeding the user. You do things you want to do by hand
and learn along the way. It is most Unix_Like Linux distribution out there
and file system are laid out in a standard way. Overall better than others
for learning Linux.
- Posted by Tim Sampson on December 10th, 2003
sackingsfan@comcast.net (Shade) wrote in
news:5cefd5b.0312082052.21a238b@posting.google.com :
Mandrake has some fancy wizards and stuff to help out new users.
Cheers
Tim
- Posted by Jonathan G Campbell on December 10th, 2003
sackingsfan@comcast.net (Shade) wrote in message news:<5cefd5b.0312082052.21a238b@posting.google.co m>...
If you've already installed RH and it works -- i.e. at least offers
you a command prompt, the answer is install nothing, i.e. install
nothing more, yet.
Maybe the question is "how to learn to use Linux?". To answer that
efficiently, we would need to find out what you already know.
A standard book on Unix may suffice.
I like Welsh et al, Running Linux, 4th ed. O'Reilly.
Perhaps: http://www.tldp.org/
IBM have some nice tutorials, e.g.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...-roadmap1.html
Best regards,
Jon C.
- Posted by notbob on December 11th, 2003
On 2003-12-09, Shade <sackingsfan@comcast.net> wrote:
Slackware
- Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on December 12th, 2003
In <5cefd5b.0312082052.21a238b@posting.google.com>, on 12/08/2003
at 08:52 PM, sackingsfan@comcast.net (Shade) said:
It sounds like you have ample disk space to try several different
distributions. I'd suggest SUSE, Mandrake or your existing dead rat
initially, then look at Debian or Slackware when you get more
comfortable with things.
What's your connectivity? If you don't have broadband, or don't want
to spend time with downloads, then you will be better off with a
distribution that includes a lot on the CD/DVD set.
Are you planning on coding enhancements? If so, you might want to look
at a source-based distribution. Again, there is nothing to stop you
from looking at multiple distributions, either consecutively or in a
multiboot setup.
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