On the distro front my favorite distro is SuSE and the recent version have a nice graphical install/admin utility. That make it reasonably easy. SuSEs X configurator (SaX) does a good job of detecting video cards. I just installed it on a couple of systems in a lab at work. They are gateways with TNT cards in them (I think) SAX detected the cards and configured for 1024x768 with little or no effort. For learning Linux I have one suggestion for a book: A Practical Guide to Linux. I used this as a textbook for a class I used to teach. Its got a lot of depth and detail. Marc Sobel, the author, also wrote A Practical Guide to Unix. Good Luck, Jack On Monday 02 April 2001 20:07, you wrote: > Hello. I just subscribed to this list last night, and am very new to Linux, > so I preemptivly apologize if I ask a stupid question. > > Anyway, I used to run a redhat box on an i686 but took it down because I > could never figure it out. After several months of cussing out my windows > machine (I switched to Win2k, and although a massive improvement over > Win9x, is still very buggy) and at the recomendation of a friend's father > who is a huge UNIX guru, however, I decided to give Linux another try. My 3 > major problems with getting Linux up and running are the fact that I can't > find a modem anywhere that will work with Linux, my Voodoo3 and SB Live > cards don't have drivers written for them that I know of, and the fact that > I have virtually no experience with UNIX. If any of you would give me the > name of a good, relatively cheap modem, point me to some Voodoo3/SB Live > drivers, or give me a few pointers on how to learn Linux, it would be most > appreciated. > > Also, I know it's fairly subjective, but what distributions do you guys > think work the best, based on your experience? > > The Fishy One's Infinite Wisdom #28: "Life is anything that dies when you > stomp on it." > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list