Which Distro?

[cereal83]

First of all I have to say I dunno if this is in the right forum but here goes.

I am a linux noob but I had mandrake 9.2 on my comp and everything went fine. I just want to move onto something that is a bit more difficult. Just a bit. I am not a linux pro yet. I was going to go to Red Hat Linux but it's going out of business so I don't want that one. Which one would be best for me? I would like something that has tons of programs on the ISo cd when I download it. It doesn't have to be a super fast version. I like using KDE or GNOME. I would like something easy and with lots of programs. If I have to I will go back to mandrake but I would prefer something differant

Thanks

[bosox79]

Originally posted by cereal83
First of all I have to say I dunno if this is in the right forum but here goes.

I am a linux noob but I had mandrake 9.2 on my comp and everything went fine. I just want to move onto something that is a bit more difficult. Just a bit. I am not a linux pro yet. I was going to go to Red Hat Linux but it's going out of business so I don't want that one. Which one would be best for me? I would like something that has tons of programs on the ISo cd when I download it. It doesn't have to be a super fast version. I like using KDE or GNOME. I would like something easy and with lots of programs. If I have to I will go back to mandrake but I would prefer something differant

Thanks

have you had a look at the which distro thread in dev/random
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116630
it is full of info. also do you want a binary distro or do you want to compile your software from source? and if you want to give RH a shot try out Fedora:D

[cereal83]

Originally posted by bosox79
have you had a look at the which distro thread in dev/random
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116630
it is full of info. also do you want a binary distro or do you want to compile your software from source? and if you want to give RH a shot try out Fedora:D

That link you gave me is for "which browser" :confused:

Is Fedora going to be full of software on the ISO cd like mandrake on Redhat? Also what do you mean by "do I want a binary distro or do I want to complike my software from source" ? Does that mean do I want to install all the software by myself or would i rather have a program or the OS do it for me like when I install a RPM? If so I would rather have the OS or a program to install for me since I am new to linux

Thanks

[cereal83]

Also 1 more thing. I am looking at ths ISO downloads and was wondering what the differance from yarrow-SRPMS-disc1.iso was to yarrow-i386-disc1.iso since those are 2 options for downloading Fedora.

Thanks

[nouse66]

yes, fedora comes with plenty of software (just like redhat does/did). have you checked out http://fedora.redhat.com ?
you don't need the srpm discs just the regular i386 ones.

[bosox79]

Originally posted by cereal83
Also 1 more thing. I am looking at ths ISO downloads and was wondering what the differance from yarrow-SRPMS-disc1.iso was to yarrow-i386-disc1.iso since those are 2 options for downloading Fedora.

Thanks

sorry :eek: here is the correct link http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110030
let us know which distro you choose I think Fedora is great

bosox

[cereal83]

Ok I will start downloading Fedora and should have it installed by tomorrow (Saturday)

Thanks

[rbrimhall]

Try MEPIS. Tons of software compressed onto one iso and it runs live so you don't have to install if you don't like it.

www.mepis.org

[JsPr]

You might want to try SuSE 9. If you don't but it the only way to install it is by ftp. You can find instructions at the SuSE site (www.suse.com). I downloaded the 9.0 tree with wget and installed it. I have bought the distribution on CD also. I have used Fedora and IMHO SuSE 9 are easy to install and use and seems to be faster than Fedora, at least on my box.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by cereal83
First of all I have to say I dunno if this is in the right forum but here goes.


Actually 'Best Distro' threads should be posted in /dev/random where the other ones reside.

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