[SGVLUG] [Fwd: LINUX Distro]

[Mike Fedyk]

Unless you plan on being a unix system admin, I wouldn't start with 
Debian.  That being said, back in '98 I started with Debian and haven't 
used any other distro until recently when I wanted to learn a few other 
flavors.  If you want to be close to the bare metal, then slackware is 
for you.  Debian tends to have nice defaults available (typically it is 
all commented out on install, but is as simple as removing comment marks 
at the beginning of a line.)

Bryan White wrote:
> Debian will get you set up pretty quickly and let you dive right in.  
> I'd suggest spending some time at the command line, but installing X 
> is real easy in deb too.  If your system has low specs you may want to 
> consider windows managers such as Fluxbox or XFCE instead of Gnome or 
> KDE(both use quite a bit of memory relative to flux/xfce).  Also 
> debian makes updating your system really easy.
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> On 11/17/05, *Don Saxton* <dsaxton at pacbell.net 
> <mailto:dsaxton at pacbell.net>> wrote:
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>     I don't know distros. I use fedora.  I sent your mail to sgvlug but no
>     one has responded
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>     Don Saxton wrote:
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>     > Subject:
>     > LINUX Distro
>     > From:
>     > DOREN GARCIA < doren42 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:doren42 at sbcglobal.net>>
>     > Date:
>     > Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:13:25 -0800
>     > To:
>     > Don Saxton <euphobot at pacbell.net <mailto:euphobot at pacbell.net>>
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>     > To:
>     > Don Saxton < euphobot at pacbell.net <mailto:euphobot at pacbell.net>>
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>     >I been thinking about getting a cheap used x86 box to play with.
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>     >I've also been thinking about installing a LINUX distro. So far
>     these seem
>     >to be the ones I'd be interested in.
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>     >MEPIS Linux (Multimedia friendly) because I might want to be in the
>     >multimedia/digital living room business 3 years down the road.
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>     >Debian GNU/Linux (all around stable & Server Friendly) because I
>     eventually
>     >might want to set up a server eventually and Linux is cheaper
>     than OSX.
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>     >Mandriva Linux formerly Mandrake (Best Installers & Hardware
>     detection)
>     >Because it seems like it might be the easiest with a partitioner
>     etc.
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>     >Got any opinions?
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