I second the Beatrix nomination. I looked at Beatrix recently and found 
it to be a nice little distro well suited to someone sticking a toe in 
the Linux water.

-mj-

Joseph Sinclair wrote:

> It might be nice to include BeatriX(http://www.watsky.net/) as well.  
> It's a pocket-CD sized Ubuntu variant cut down for use on limited 
> hardware, or by non-technical users.  Full Linux kernel, but only a 
> small selection of applications, and no active servers. It's nice for 
> "just get me a simple system I can use" requests, and it works well to 
> see if Ubuntu will work on a system prior to doing an install (boots 
> faster than the Ubuntu Live-CD).
> 
> Might also be good to include the SLAX Live-CD along with Slakware, 
> since it's a very useful way to see if slackware will work well on a 
> system (and get some of the hardware detected) without taking the time 
> for an install...
> 
> I'd say definitely include Debian (testing and stable), even though the 
> CD set is huge, just to have the packages available locally (aptitude 
> and apt-get can use the CD's as sources for any of the Debian based 
> distros if needed)
> I understand the uncertainty on Gentoo.  I'd say just have the Universal 
> Live CD for x86, AMD64, and PPC.  I don't see much point in using Gentoo 
> if you're not going to do a ground-up build of the system.  I'd also say 
> that any Gentoo install should require advance notice, to ensure there 
> is sufficient expertise available to get the system build process 
> started (it's pretty unlikely it'll be finished in one day) before the 
> installfest ends.
> 
> For the 64-bit versions, be sure to note whether it's IA64(Itanium) or 
> x86_64(AMD), since the two are incompatible.
> 
> Just some thoughts...
> ==Joseph++
> 
> P.S. Thanks, Dennis, for offering to create this kind of resource, it's 
> a lot of work to keep up with this many distributions, and we appreciate it.
> 
> Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> 
>>I'm putting together a "Distro Silo" to bring to the PLUG and ASULUG InstallFests loaded with the following distros.  My criteria for including a distros is 1) There are PLUG members active on the list that can support it 2) A good user community exists (either represented on LinusQuestions or on the distro's website) 3) It's not a beta version or limited time evaluation version 4) Security updates are available on a regular basis. 5) There is a free download version (I know I've included a couple that don't meet this requirement).
>>
>>I'm listing a few intersting Live-CDs because they are fun to play with, not because they make a good install cadidate.  Distros shown in parenthesis I'm undecided about.  Where possible I'll include PPC, 64-bit and DVD versions.
>>
>>Am I missing anything that you feel *must* be on the list?
>>
>>There's the list so far:
>>
>>MandrakeLinux
>>Fedora
>>Ubuntu
>>Mepis
>>SuSE
>>(Debian)
>>KNOPPIX
>>(Gentoo)
>>Slackware :-)
>>DamnSmallLinux
>>Xandros
>>FreeBSD
>>(Vector)
>>SLAX
>>CentOS
>>Libranet
>>PuppyLinux
>>Yellow Dog
>>IPCOP
>>Morphix
>>RubberChickenLinux - New, very flexible distro.  Look for it the first of next month! ;-)
>>NetBSD
>>SystemRescueCD
>>SmartBootManager
>>ScanModem
>>OpenCD
>>LT Modem Driver
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