What linux should I install 699
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:34:29 -0800, amanda
It's Linux, BTW. ;-)
The choice of a GNU-Linux distribution is a FAQ, and any recommendation tends to provoke religious wars. My answer: one of them. You do some research and choose a likely candidate. If that doesn't work to your liking, then choose another. It's not like there a scarcity of choices in this area. You might choose what is popular:
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The wikipedia offers good explanations about what you will get with any distribution:
Personally, I have found Slackware to be easiest to understand and work with. That distro uses the BSD style startup scripts as its basis, and that has been easier for me to understand-debug. Also, the whole point of Free Software is to empower the user- to break out of the binary only box. Slackware gives me the ability to "use the source, Luke."
I recently wrote this (cut and paste here): Part of using GNU-Linux (and other OSs as well) is learning how to fix it when its broken. This is one area where the various distributions diverge. Some distro's don't expect the end user to be able to fix anything for himself, while other distro's expect that he can do simple things, and others expect that you have compiled and bootstrapped completely from scratch. Decide where you fit in that picture.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:11:14 -0800, amanda The initial releases of FC, that is 1 and 2, had problems, yes, but...
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