What linux should I install
amanda
Giovanni
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
>
The one that you like best.
The one that best suites you.
The one for which you can get help.
The one that has best support for your hardware.
The one that ........
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Captain Dondo
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
>
Bascially, just do it....
Get a few, try them.
Linux is all about experimentation, trial and error, exploring.
So just start somewhere, anywhere, but start.
And don't get discouraged if at first things don't work out.
--Yan
Douglas Mayne
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
>
It's Linux, BTW. ;-)
The choice of a GNU/Linux distribution is a FAQ, and any recommendation
tends to provoke religious wars. My answer: one of them. You do
some research and choose a likely candidate. If that doesn't work to your
liking, then choose another. It's not like there a scarcity of choices
in this area. You might choose what is popular:
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
The wikipedia offers good explanations about what you will get with any
distribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Personally, I have found Slackware to be easiest to understand and work
with. That distro uses the BSD style startup scripts as its basis,
and that has been easier for me to understand/debug. Also, the whole
point of Free Software is to empower the user- to break out of the binary
only box. Slackware gives me the ability to "use the source, Luke."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware
I recently wrote this (cut and paste here):
Part of using GNU/Linux (and other OSs as well) is learning how to fix it
when its broken. This is one area where the various distributions diverge.
Some distro's don't expect the end user to be able to fix anything for
himself, while other distro's expect that he can do simple things, and
others expect that you have compiled and bootstrapped completely from
scratch. Decide where you fit in that picture.
--
Douglas Mayne
M
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
You might the linux distribution chooser:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Another thing you can is download a few LiveCD iso's and burn them to CD.
This will give you an opportunity to get a feel for what the distribution
offers, and it may for warn you of any hardware detection problems.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
If you want to install software then find out what the distro's package
manager is, for most debian based distro's the GUI is Synaptic and the CLI
is apt-get. Although (k)Ubuntu uses Adept, you can use that to install
Synaptic then use that. That is what I would recommend only because I got
Adept to go into some infinite loop when I was doing multiple installation.
Think Adept still needs a bit more work.
I personally use kubuntu and tend to favour the debian based distros, I just
find them easier to get on with, but that is just me <smile>.
Don't try to install software from source code until you are familiar with
the OS.
You where also asking about books. Coming from windows I found "Running
Linux" 4th Edition from O'Reilly very helpfull in understanding linux.
Hopefully you will find these comments more helpfull than my previous
attempt :-)
Good luck!
Regards,
M
Bit Twister
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
I'll suggest Mandriva for the complete newbie.
That will get you an easy/familiar gui interface to get Linux up and
allow you to dual boot your system. You can then dig into linux as
deep as you like then get other distros to play with.
Here, look at install screen shots.
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux/101/en/Starter.html/drakx.html
other docs http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/community/users/documentation
http://shop.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/os2.html?var_distribution=Mandriva&id=RyAbsNgJ
has
Mandriva Linux 2006 "free" x86, without hardcopy docs, pretty cheap.
If you like it, join the Mandriva club so mandriva can pay their bills.
ray
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
www.distrowatch.com - do your homework. There is no way another person can
answer that question. If there were one 'right' or 'best' distro, there
would not be 357 active distributions.
Robert Hull
wrote:
> If there were one 'right' or 'best' distro, there
> would not be 357 active distributions.
And besides, who needs more than 8 days off per year ;-o
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ray
> In comp.os.linux.misc, on Fri 24 March 2006 19:59, ray <r...@zianet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If there were one 'right' or 'best' distro, there
>> would not be 357 active distributions.
> And besides, who needs more than 8 days off per year ;-o
some of them take longer than one day. My Gentoo install took about a week
(stage one on a mini-itx).
Stefan Patric
> As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
Since it was just released this past Monday, Fedora Core 5.
Fedora Core 3 and 4 have been the ONLY distros I've tried, and I've tried
quite a few over the past 5 years or so, that properly recognized all my
hardware and configured everything properly with little or no input or
tweeking from me: Exactly the way an OS should install.
I also suggest that you go out and buy the book RUNNING LINUX, 4th Edition
(O'Reilly). Best damn Linux reference for the Linux tyro.
Stef
Chris F.A. Johnson
Why so long? I can get Linux From Scratch running, including X, in
a day.
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ray
> On 2006-03-25, ray wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:09:58 +0000, Robert Hull wrote:
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.misc, on Fri 24 March 2006 19:59, ray <r...@zianet.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If there were one 'right' or 'best' distro, there
>>>> would not be 357 active distributions.
>>> And besides, who needs more than 8 days off per year ;-o
>>
>> some of them take longer than one day. My Gentoo install took about a week
>> (stage one on a mini-itx).
>
> Why so long? I can get Linux From Scratch running, including X, in
> a day.
Mostly done in the evenings - fire up a large emerge and go to bed. Also,
it was on an EPIA VIA C3 mini-itx - which ain't the fastest processor in
the world. I did a complete stage one.
amanda
Stefan Patric wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:34:29 -0800, amanda wrote:
>
> > As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
>
> Since it was just released this past Monday, Fedora Core 5.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
>
> Fedora Core 3 and 4 have been the ONLY distros I've tried, and I've tried
> quite a few over the past 5 years or so, that properly recognized all my
> hardware and configured everything properly with little or no input or
> tweeking from me: Exactly the way an OS should install.
Thanks for the tips. A friend of mine mentioned Fedora after asking me
whether I would want to use it a server. I would, though not
immdiately, and so I got version 4 downloaded. He said that 5 might
not be stable yet.
It was good to hear that little or no input or tweeking was required as
an OS should install.
>
> I also suggest that you go out and buy the book RUNNING LINUX, 4th Edition
> (O'Reilly). Best damn Linux reference for the Linux tyro.
I'll get it.
>
>
> Stef
Stefan Patric
>
> Stefan Patric wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:34:29 -0800, amanda wrote:
>>
>> > As novice to Lunix/Unix, what linux distro should I install ?
>>
>> Since it was just released this past Monday, Fedora Core 5.
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
>>
>> Fedora Core 3 and 4 have been the ONLY distros I've tried, and I've tried
>> quite a few over the past 5 years or so, that properly recognized all my
>> hardware and configured everything properly with little or no input or
>> tweeking from me: Exactly the way an OS should install.
>
> Thanks for the tips. A friend of mine mentioned Fedora after asking me
> whether I would want to use it a server. I would, though not
> immdiately, and so I got version 4 downloaded. He said that 5 might
> not be stable yet.
The initial releases of FC, that is 1 and 2, had problems, yes, but since
3, releases have been quite stable "right out of the box." And FWIW, it's
been a week since 5's been out and there's been almost nothing posted on
the USENET about problems of any kind. A few things, yes, but they seem
to be related to hardware incompatibilities due to drivers not being
included in the distro. If there were problems, major or minor, it would
have been all over the 'net by now. However, I somewhat agree with your
friend: Wait a while on 5. 4 is a mature release, and while it may not
have all the new features and cutting edge do-dads of 5, it is still a
very usable version. (That's what I'm using right now.) Besides, I myself
prefer to wait a few weeks before downloading any new releases just to let
all the download fever pass.
Also, after installing 4, you should do a 'yum -y update' as root to
update all the installed files. However, if you've gotten the most
current version of 4, there will be very little need for updates.
Stef
New to Linux
I like SuSE 10.0 and Knoppix best
the distro does all the work determining what you have attached to you
computer
Slackware and Red Hat requires a bit more thinking
Stanislaw Flatto
> My own opinion
> I like SuSE 10.0 and Knoppix best
> the distro does all the work determining what you have attached to you
> computer
> Slackware and Red Hat requires a bit more thinking
Coming from msn.com this sentence should have ",God forbid." (no quotes)
attached.
Have fun
Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.