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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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Saxton</b> <<a href="mailto:dsaxton@pacbell.net">dsaxton@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I don't know distros. I use fedora. I sent your mail to sgvlug but no<br>one has responded<br><br>Don Saxton wrote:
<br><br>><br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> Subject:<br>> LINUX Distro<br>> From:<br>> DOREN GARCIA <<a href="mailto:doren42@sbcglobal.net">
doren42@sbcglobal.net</a>><br>> Date:<br>> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:13:25 -0800<br>> To:<br>> Don Saxton <<a href="mailto:euphobot@pacbell.net">euphobot@pacbell.net</a>><br>><br>> To:<br>> Don Saxton <
<a href="mailto:euphobot@pacbell.net">euphobot@pacbell.net</a>><br>><br>><br>>I been thinking about getting a cheap used x86 box to play with.<br>><br>>I've also been thinking about installing a LINUX distro. So far these seem
<br>>to be the ones I'd be interested in.<br>><br>>MEPIS Linux (Multimedia friendly) because I might want to be in the<br>>multimedia/digital living room business 3 years down the road.<br>><br>><br>>Debian GNU/Linux (all around stable & Server Friendly) because I eventually
<br>>might want to set up a server eventually and Linux is cheaper than OSX.<br>><br>><br>>Mandriva Linux formerly Mandrake (Best Installers & Hardware detection)<br>>Because it seems like it might be the easiest with a partitioner etc.
<br>><br>>Got any opinions?<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br></blockquote></div><br>