Hi,

I wanted to try installing a Linux Distro, not sure which one is the best to start off with? Any advice or tips?

Red Hat is generally regarded as the beginner's best bet for running Linux.

i liked phlak and knoppix

Gentoo.

Slackware, it's all you need.

~ Krientle

fedora all the way
it is the shit
and it be free
\\pronmistress

i started with mandrake, and it worked very well. I tried redhat, and hated it.

It installs automatically, and runs nicely.

Can't say I've tried the others, but you probably don't want to have to compile everything from source your first time around.

The answer to your question is mu. There's no proper answer. Asking what distribution is the best is a loaded question. There's far too many overzealous fans of one distribution or another. There is no "best" distribution of Linux.

There are quite a few variables in deciding what to use as your base distribution, and even that is just a recommendation.

What do you plan on doing with your computer? What do you do with it now? What do you want to do? Each distribution fills a particular niche group. Some fill more than one, but all can be reworked to fit them all, given enough time and effort. The power of Linux is that you are free to transform it into whatever you need it to be. There are no black boxes you are forced to design around.

What works for one person may not be applicable for another. I personally use Slackware, but I wouldn't recommend it to others. I wouldn't *not* recommend it, but what serves my needs and comforts may not serve yours.

So really, as I've said before, it depends on you. My suggestion would be to browse the Distrowatch.com site and read up on what different distributions have to offer. Check out both the Major Distributions page and the Search Distribuions page for lots of information to help you decide. Read forums, mailing list archives and Usenet threads on the ones you think might be interesting. Find out what it can and can't easily do. Install it and try it yourself. Experience is the best teacher you have for this kind of thing.

Cool. Distowatch.com looks pretty usefull. Anyways, I would be running game servers, internet/word processing, possibly setting up as an apache and mysql server later on. I will also be folding with the PC. Another big plus I'm looking for is security, im just sick of all of the M$ service packs and updates. Looks like I have a lot of reading ahead of me.

Red Hat is what we use in the data center I work at for our servers. I think our Unix engineer might be using Knoppix for a cluster project he's working on.

Red Hat Fedora Core 2 would be a good starting place

dipshit fedora is red hat based but it;s not called red hat fedora it's called fedora core project, it is the free version of redhat, cause red hat is gay and started chargin peoiple for their software

fedora core is sponsored and hosted by redhat

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