I'm sure this gets asked on a regular basis but I'm not having much luck
turning anything up in the archives so here goes... I'm looking for a
recommendation for which distribution to go with as a "newbie."


As a bit more information while trying not to ask too many things as once...
I've been programming (OpenVMS) for the last decade, had set up my PC to
dual boot Win 2000 and RedHat 7.1 about 2 years ago (wanted to play around
with web design) and had Apache running on the RedHat side, poked around a
bit, then things sort of fell by the wayside. All I have is a (win)modem.

I was talking to qwest on Tuesday (just the minimum - 256 upload/download).
Haven't talked to Cox. If anyone has any comments good, bad or otherwise on
either I'd appreciate those as well. Qwest said they would handle all the
set up on the PC (I didn't ask if that meant "windows set-up").

The PC I have at the moment is almost 6. The short term (shortly after
Christmas) is a (new) dual boot system Windows (for the wife) and some Linux
distro. I've got a hosted website out there - static HTML with a sprinkling
of JavaScript. Things are getting to the point where I would like to start
getting into some server side stuff (get Apache and MySQL running) so that I
have something to learn/test on for web development. Should I just pull the
RedHat 7.1 off the shelf? I get the impression that RedHat has sort of moved
away from the "personal computing" market.

Any thoughts appreciated.
Joe

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