On Sunday 28 November 2004 21:36, you wrote:
> 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."
>

I vote for Mandrake, my personal favorite.  No slam against the others, 
though.

Vaughn

>
> 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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