I would recommend slackware...it is the distro I started with and taught me the most....dual booting will not be a problem with the default LILO setup and as a distro to help you learn the ropes I can think of none better....it gives you the freedom to learn the configuration and what not and doesn't dumb anything down for you while still having all the manpages and KDE and Gnome for easy user friendly GUI....and most importantly all other distros will give you genital warts....no lie...i read it on Slashdot... Dan Lansing -----Original Message----- From: Joel Dick [mailto:joel_cd at yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:37 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] Installfest Distro, need help deciding Hey all, Seeing as the installfest is fast approaching, I'm trying to decide what distro I want to install, I'm sure this is always a popular question, but I'm hoping for some insight. I tried installing mandrake 9.1 and found that it wiped out my windoze partition (well didn't wipe it out, but the info went bye bye? the MBR mighta gotten messed up), luckily it was a fresh install of windoze with no information I'd be missing. So I'm reformatting the drive, reinstalling windoze and all. Needless to say, unless I burned a bad copy of mandrake, I'm not overly enthused to try that route again (I've installed older versions of mandrake in the past and ever subsequent install has gotten to be more of a hassel, I have no idea why). So, my choices are, try to install Mandrake again, or Go with either Suse or RedHat (their current versions). I'm looking for whatever one works good with a dual boot scenario, and has the best features for a guy that's still learning the ropes, but isn't entirely new to the world of linux. It's not that I'm really unhappy with mandrake either, perhaps having someone give me a hand with the install would be helpful even. Anyways, anyone have any suggestions for me? Or perhaps I can get most of this answered right at the installfest? Thanks, Joel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list