Laurie Brown wrote:
Rob Smith wrote:
Hi,
As someone very, very new to linux I would appreciate a few pointers as to which direction I should be going in.
I recently acquired a copy of Mandrake from the PC Plus coverdisk, I intend to run this as dualboot on my AST Acsentia P200MMX Laptop. Is Mandrake the best release for a newbie to use?
Frankly, I think SuSE, but as Mandrake is based on RedHat, but unlike Redhat manages to work, you're better off with that than plain Redhat, and certainly, a lot of distros. For a complete newbie package, IMO, SuSE is pretty good: 6.4 is the latest.
Last time I played with Suse, I found they'd F***ed up the libraries and I couldn't get pine or apache to compile. Under redhat and slackware when I tried it, I RTFM'd and all worked fine, just wouldn't work under Suse. It put me off Suse for life after that.
Mandrake is certainly the nicest I've used so far.
My tuppence worth Chris