On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > Since you're realitively new to linux I'd recommend mandrake or SuSE. > Once you feel more comfortable you can migrate to slackware, debian or > one of the other more obscure distros. You may even decide you like > FreeBSD Debian [1] is obscure? There ARE ways of installing Debian in a less "obscure" manner, such as installing with Libranet [2]. Anyway, I'm more for starting people out on the "right" foot. ;-) Debian is definitely the way to go, but that's a biased opinion from someone who works with it on a daily basis. To read up on the different releases of Debian, you can visit links [3] and [4]. The installation instructions for the 'stable' release are at link [5]. References ---------- 1. http://www.debian.org/ 2. http://www.libranet.com/ 3. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ 4. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011018/521dd27f/attachment.pgp