Newbie seeking advice

[Dan Lund]

Hi John,

My own personal advice would be go first try Redhat, and get to know the 
files by hand after the installation went through.  Redhat tends to be the 
"easiest" to install and has a GUI for most things to get you up to speed 
fast.  After that, if you feel your up to speed on Linux, you can install 
different distributions that aren't new-user oriented such as debian or 
slackware.  My 2 cents :)  Mandrake is pretty good as it's an enhancement on 
Redhat, however the few bugs it does have tend to make me sway away from 
advising a Linux newbie to use it on their first try.

Take care,
Norman Lund



>From: "John W" <wisdom04@home.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: "plug" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Newbie seeking advice
>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:55:29 -0700
>
>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

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