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[sm00nie]

I've just recently tried linux and I must say I"m really impressed with the new KDE and Gnome environments, as well as the shere number of OSS available. I'm really excited about devling deeper into this more stable and efficient OS; This coming from a windows user since it's dawn.

I've started with Gentoo 2006.0 to get my feet wet, and I'm planning to grab the new Fedora Core 5 when I get a chance (as well as more cd's/dvd's) - it was recommended to me.

Anyways, what linux flavor do you prefer and why ?

[tt3]

I've got a copy of Suse lying around, but I've never used it.

[xJedix]

i've used a cd-boot version of linux called knoppix.... It is a nice cd-boot version of linux. Comes in handy for using on school computers or just a different os then windows.

I am going to be getting fedora soon, I've heard that it is very good. My friend uses it and likes it a lot. I would probably recommend it, but its whatever you like the most.

[tvaughn05]

I've heard a lot of things about Knoppix, both good and bad. Do you have any networking or anything, cause' everytime I try to use Linux, I can't get my networking running... I use Fedora usually, its nice, comes with lots of games :-).

[amhso]

I use slackware. it's very versatile while being not newb unfriendly. I don't like redhat/fedora. their updating and whatnot always screws up.

[SqlByte]

Im using Slackware, yes some of you might say that im mazohist... but im not, i realy like to do things the most simple way there is but. Slackware is not realy user frieandly type of distro, he isint friendly at all, but he is much better then many other linux distro in many ways. If you learn Red Hat or SuSe... you learned red hat or suse, but if you learn how to use Slackware, your mastered the linux

If you have trouble finding the right distro for you... maybe Live linux distro chooser will help ya.


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If you run the linux for the first time, i suggest you to use some live cd linux distros like Knoppix he is the most popular, but you have others on
www.damnsmalllinux.org/
you can find some basic mini linux's, that you can put on your USB drive and run em that way, some of them are like 30-40mb
If you tryed live cd but you wont more, then i suggest you to start with SuSe the newest version you can find, or with Ubuntu. You can order ubuntu for free, they even pay your post on https://shipit.ubuntu.com
I ordered and it came to me like 1monts after but i live in Serbia
Im not big fan of Ubuntu becouse its not so complex and it uses Gnome gui, but his "brother" Kubuntu uses KDE grafical envoriament.

[kdr_98]

I use often Knoppix from (live-CD / DVD), but i'm still searching a distribution for installation on my hard drive. Since they work with older hardware as well I'll try it with an older Comp.
For making a firewall/router I've used IPCOP (small and works fine).

With knoppix I'm using the KDE
So I'm seaching for a distribution were I can select the KDE desktop.

Maybe I'll try Kubuntu.

[elrohir]

installing Ubuntu next Monday, if all goes well - theres some crap with the wirless that messes up all the time. A little noob like me can't set up an ndiswrapper, so I'm getting a friend to take a peek at it. "Thats what friends are for..."

I though Ubuntu worked with KDE? Kubuntu, which is a subsection of Ubuntu, does, so I would expect Ubuntu itself to use KDE...

Oh well, I'll find out next Monday

[Magic1492]

I love SuSE10.1. It is extremely easy to network and to add a printer, I got a samba server running in around 15 minutes with no previous experience. I used to use Mandrake and Debian, but they didn't have what I was looking for.

[odomike]

Right now, I have Mandrake Linux running in my system. Tried Redhat but, didnt like it that much. Prefered Mandrake. Will be installing ubuntu, kubuntu and PCLinux too.

Doesnt mean I am going to remove my Mandrake. It will still be but I will add the new ones and have multi-boot options during system start-up.

I am using Acronis OS Selector and it detects all the Operating Systems intalled on my Computer. It lists them immediately after the post screen and leaves you to seleect which one to boot from.