Linux >> Best for beginners
Posted by moondude on 01:33:00 06-03-2003
I used to work sometimes with Linux but i think i never found a good kickoff. Can someone tell me which distribution is best for beginners to learn ? Would be very nice
gr33ts moondude [addsig]
Posted by Henning on 21:13:00 06-03-2003
i thing knoppix is an very good distr to lern linux.you can jsut start it from disk and see how it workx and if you want you can install it on your hdd.... [addsig]
Posted by Henning on 21:15:00 06-03-2003
oh sry guy a forgot to send to url... you can downlaod the iso file for knoppix at www.knoppix.net [addsig]
Posted by ItinitI on 07:27:00 06-05-2003
RedHat, Mandrake are all simple install distros that would be a good step after using Knoppix...[I quite like Kondara MNU/Linux {its based on RedHat}...but's _very_ reare to find ISO now it seems]...Slackware is another nice distro [bit more advanced maybe].
Posted by Neu[Mann] on 23:29:00 06-05-2003
I recommend RedHat or Mandrake. Both are mainstream distros. If you are in germany you should be able to find SuSE easily on the market.

BUT...

MandrakeSoft has filled bankrupcy (sp?). Don't touch it.

SuSE is commercial. Probably worth buying if you are serious about Linux.

RedHat 8.0 was a _BREEZE_ to install (once I got correct ISOs and a working CD-ROM but that is another story). If your hardware likes RedHat then it's the distro to start with. [addsig]
Posted by dxprog on 23:55:00 06-05-2003
RedHat is definatly the easiest to install. [addsig]
Posted by moondude on 04:00:00 06-08-2003
i used to have rh 7 cds which worked but now half a year is gone and it the isos i download are all defect ( dunno if thats the correct name ) [addsig]
Posted by moondude on 04:01:00 06-08-2003
If someone can get me a link to a working iso, i would give it another i try. I liked rh very much. but i wasted 8 cds for scandisked up burns which didnt work [addsig]
Posted by dxprog on 04:38:00 06-08-2003
I think the only way to get ISOs for RH is to become a RH member (which means paying), or you could a RH8 book with CDs in them. I got my RH7 from a book at the library (free ) [addsig]
Posted by Neu[Mann] on 10:47:00 06-08-2003
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I think the only way to get ISOs for RH is to become a RH member (which means paying), or you could a RH8 book with CDs in them. I got my RH7 from a book at the library (free )


Not true. I got my RedHat ISOs from a local mirror. RedHat also provide a big quantity of mirrors for download. Of course, they'd be happierif everybody bought their commercial edition but eh!
Posted by dxprog on 23:26:00 06-08-2003
Heck, I didn't know. I've only been to their site once or twice, mainly to see if hardware was supported. [addsig]
Posted by moondude on 23:49:00 06-09-2003
their mirrors on redhat.com are crap. they are are all deadlinks :\
Posted by Neu[Mann] on 00:27:00 06-10-2003
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their mirrors on redhat.com are crap. they are are all deadlinks :\


Not all are dead links. Most of them weren't fast enough though.

That's why I was happy to find a local mirror in my University network. Being on a 10mbps LAN, I downloaded the 3 ISOs at +800k/s -->P [addsig]
Posted by moondude on 03:22:00 06-11-2003
be happy ur studying im still pupil @ school [addsig]