Subj : Re: Linux Distribution
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Baruch
Date : Fri Sep 17 2004 04:41 am

Gator wrote:

> I have been playing around with Red Hat and Mandrake (all different
> releases) for about 1 year now. I just got a CD set of a bunch on Linux
> Distributions (Mandrake 10, Fedora 1, Debian 3.0 r2, Slackware 9.1,
> Yoper1.2, Gentoo 1.4_rc4, FreeBSD 5.2.1, and Vector Linux 4.0) as a
> present. I have a P3 600Mhz laptop with 256MB of RAM and a 12 GB HDD. I am
> going to begin studying for my Linux+ Certification and I want some
> opinions on which distro would be the best to use.
> Any help would be great.
> Phil

Your question is similar to asking what shoe size is the best.  The answer
is, of course, the size that fits you best.

Since you have all these disks, I suggest that you actually install them and
see what you like.  True, this is time-consuming and often difficult,
especially if you run into hardware problems and have to track down drivers
or modules.  But it's a great experience and it will give you knowledge you
could never get from just asking on a newsgroup.

And then you could come back and tell people here what the best distro is...

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