Subj : Re: Linux Distribution
To   : comp.os.linux
From : chino
Date : Mon Sep 20 2004 03:01 pm

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:29:54 -0400, 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

If you want to understand linux, go with slackware, the programmer's
distro.

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