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LorKorub:
If you could figure out Slackware, go with Debian.  You have nothing to lose.

Abigail:
I would say Mandrake. Installing Linux have never been easier! Mandrake 9.1 is coming out soon. Maybe you should wait on that one?

Calum:
i'd say mandrake for sure, although you will have to a little bit of tweaking i think.

for stableness mandrake 9.0 is as stable as a horse's house, but 9.1 will have updated versions of the included packages of course.

slave:
Here is the lowdown:

If you like Gnome, use Red hat linux 8

If you like KDE, use Mandrake (not my choice personally) SuSE, or Yoper (http://www.yoper.com)

If you want to be a huge geek who loves an installer that's dumb as dirt and requires that you make your own config files by hand basically, choose gentoo or debian.  Debian is much easier to install though, and actually does some configuration for you.  Gentoo I would avoid, it's for "power users" only and you have to compile something whenever you want to install it.  This makes it run a little faster (theoretically) but it's very annoying to have to wait 2 hours to install Mozilla.

Vuohi:
I'am trying to find me a suitable distro too. As an new user i would like to know, if i try Mandrake first, do the comp have to be online ? Will the distro need to load some parts or could i download the hole working OS ? The comp i like to use it has an WinXP and i dont like the windows to go online at all. It has partition of 20G waiting for the Linux OS. Is there a problem looming because the XP is there allready ?

Thank you,

Vuohi

Edit: found a good newby quide. One qestion still remains. Is there a problem with the partition for the linux or will the Mandrake installation do the job itself. And is 20G too much ?

[ March 06, 2003: Message edited by: Vuohi ]

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