Naresh Reddy on Sat, 23 Feb 2002 03:00:19 +0100 |
Andrew, For someone new, I would recommend Mandrake or Redhat, because of its simple Installation procedure(s). For more advanced users, I would say Debian or Slackware (yuck!). If you want to learn Unix, Linux is the way to go, although FreeBSD is nice too. Goodluck Naresh ----------------------------------- Naresh Reddy nyg102@psu.edu http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102 ----------------------------------- On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Andrew Puschak wrote: > Hi all, > > I started using the Linux/UNIX based operating system on BSD because "that's > what everyone was using" at least the one or two computer people I know. I > got nowhere fast and went to Redhat. I've been hearing about Mandrake and > was wondering anyone's two cents on choosing and operating system for a > newbie, on later on for an expert, or whatever else different ones are good > for. Thanks for listening! > > Andrew Puschak > barberooza@hotmail.com > AIM(GAIM) screen-name barberooza > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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