Re: [PLUG] Noob linux user wannabe who wants to know WHERE to be

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

ChrisB. wrote:

> I see two answers to this question.
>
> Do you want to just use Linux on your desktop with a GUI? If so then I would
> suggest any of the three you mentioned and buy a book. I believe a good book
> for such a need is "Point & Click Linux!"
>  
This is how I actually started.  I bought RedHat 5.2 boxed and couldn't 
get it to load on the test machine which had an external scsi cdrom 
drive.  By the time I had another machine with a dead windows install to 
test it on, 5.2 was no longer supported, so I bought Red Hat [6.2] for 
Dummies by Jon "maddog" Hall.  It was not only a good intro, but 
included the CDs for the OS.
If you don't want to go that route, and don't want to do it the hard way 
as many have suggested, try Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org).  It is 
designed for Linux beginners, and is an attempt at overcoming the 
historical difficulty in configuring Debian.  It downloads as a single 
iso, and then you install the pieces that you need via a nice program 
called apt (command line) or synaptic (gui).  It is well supported via a 
nice wiki and a list at users@ubuntulinux.org.  As an added bonus, 
because it is Debian-based, there are a lot of people on this list with 
insight in spite of the fact that they don't use Ubuntu specifically.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Ok everyone, I know that you've probably heard this
> question a million times from a million different
> people so please forgive me for being #1,000,0001. I'm
> a resident windows user who is seriously ready to
> switch things up and jump ship to linux. Now, for the
> research i've done so far, the consensus on the best
> distro's for newbies who really want to learn the OS
> like me are debian, mandrake, and suse. So, if anyone
> could offer some extra advice on exactly which "ship"
> I should jump to here, or what the majority distro
> used here in philly is so i'll have some people to
> talk to about it, i'd really appreciate it. Later days
>  

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