[thelist] Advice on choosing a Linux distro

Garrett Coakley garrett at polytechnic.co.uk
Fri Jan 31 05:09:01 CST 2003


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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:44:56 -0500 Steve wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:49:45 +0000
> Andy Warwick <mailing.lists at creed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Risking a holy war, I know, but could anyone with a wide Linux
> > experience of different distros identify a good one for a Linux
> > semi-beginner
>
> Only YOU can determine this.

+1

Remember you can grab all the major dists from http://www.linuxiso.org/
and test them out to see what you fancy. Having VMWare comes in very
handy in that situation. Failing that, just an old box for testing will
suffice.

A little bit of a tip that may be of help though, the latest version of
Redhat, v8.0, installs Apache2 by default. If you're used to running on
Apache1.3 then that could be a factor. The difference isn't huge, but it
threw me for a while.

G.

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