Since your goal is to learn I'd suggest installing both Mandrake and
FreeBSD.  With a custom install Mandrake offers a good description of
each package as you select them, and you should plan to spend a couple
of hours just going over these and making notes.

Red Hat is fine too and very similar to Mandrake.  Don't worry too much
about the partitioning, you'll redo it all soon enough anyway.  :-)

-- Rod
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, John W wrote:
> 
> I am new to Linux/Unix but really want to learn to use it. I have
install disks for Mandrake 7.1,Redhat 6.2 and free bsd 4.1. I am
lloking for opinions on which to install given that I am new to linux
and some viewpoints on how to partition for Linux. I have 7GB of Hard
drive space to use and 64 MB pc 100 memory. To my knowledge all
hardware should be supported.
> Thanks,
> John