I have a SUSE system on my dual-boot home machine, about two years
old. I've got some files under a user directory that I want to
keep, but I've really done very little with the system.
Now I am about to become more active in Linux and will probably buy
a new distribution to load up before too long.
Is there a "best choice" among the distributors:
* for ease of upgrading, while not disturbing existing user files?
* for smoothest desktop for habituated Win98 users?
* for best chance at getting a peep out of my PnP SoundBlaster?
* for ease of administration? I'm a full time Solaris programmer,
but not an experienced system administrator, and want to spend
my home-computing time USING the machine rather than tinkering
with it.
It's a K6/300 with 128MB of memory. This is basically for desktop
usage, for editing, browsing, telnet and FTP to other systems, and a
little programming. I may want to provide a NAT connection to serve
one other system in the home.
Eventually, I would keep Linux running most of the time; so I
aspire eventually to getting VMWare or something to satisfy existing
Win98 addictions.
I haven't seen any 'religious wars' among proponents of various
distros on this list, but would the above profile tend to steer me
towards one vendor or another?
Thanks,
Vic
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