I started on Slackware and learned a heck of a lot in the process. That's when things *didn't* just work. It was often a problem of figuring out how to get my hardware to work correctly with the software at the time. That's probably 4.0-ish where I started before and finally figured things out somewhere inside of 4.0. I tried Debian bit didn't like the apt experience. I tried the GUI distros and those just sucked (the whole configuration dealie). I moved back to Slack and when I needed to set up a database/web server for production use for a political campaign I switched to OpenBSD (Security/stability was more important than nifty features). Slack was BSDish and it made the transition very easy. It's a lot less maintenance as well. So that isn't terribly nice for a client computer (it's hell on wheels as a server). I would probably go back to Slackware if I needed a client-side UNIXish computer. Linux is awesome that way. It's just a nifty client computer. I wouldn't even bother with it as a server. It's just too high maintenance for something that should just work (just follow how many packages and patches are required in a given year). So since you aren't setting up a server go check out Slack or if you want to learn that from-scratch linux people are mentioning. Joshua b. Jore ; http://www.greentechnologist.org ; 10012 11010 11022 10202 1012 2122 11020 10202 10202 11002 1020 1012 11102 11102 11102 1201 11001 11002 10211 11020 10202 10202 11002 11021 1201 11010 11020 10211 On Sun, 26 May 2002, Peter Clark wrote: > On Sunday 26 May 2002 13:58, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > Matt Waters wrote: > > > My primary goal with Linux is to learn as much as I can about computers > > > with it, so please keep that in mind when you make a recommendation. > > > > If you want to learn, I'd recommend Slackware. > <snip Slackware praise> > If you REALLY want to learn, try LinuxFromScratch. Just like it's name > implies, you build EVERYTHING from the ground up. Should you survive the > process, you will be well on your way to guru-hood. :) Fortunately, the > directions are *fairly* clear. > :Peter > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >