Which Linux Version For Newbies? - Give your opinion

wutske

Aug 21 2008, 06:13 PM

I agree with xboxrulz (except the linspire stuff because I have no experience with that distribution). I've been using openSuse for a while now and I have no complaints about it, it's powerfull, advanced yet rahter easy to use. Of course, don't expect it to fully support your hardware out of the box, you might need to search and experiment a little bit before everything works (I for example couldn't get the hibernation to work on my laptop, but after reading the openSuse Wiki and altering a file, everything worked like a charm ).

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yordan

Aug 22 2008, 11:46 AM

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Aug 21 2008, 07:43 PM)

This is debatable.

This is typical from the Open World. Linux (and more generally Unix) is the basis of the Open World.
In this world, if you ask two gurus the same question, you have two different answers.
So, let me give my own answer, different from the previous ones.
I would recommend Mandriva for a guy starting up on Linux. Especially if he has Wifi networking.

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xboxrulz

Sep 6 2008, 08:08 PM

I don't think FreeBSD or OpenBSD is close to ready for mainstream use than Linux is at any rate. It rarely has any commercial support. Linux commercial support is already rare.

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magiccode9

Sep 6 2008, 05:54 PM

My opinion was that will depends on whether need
a desktop linux or deeply to the core !

If go with the last one.
Then, it may be OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

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borejk

Sep 6 2008, 02:14 AM

I think you should tr Ubuntu That is good for beginers.. it also has Mozilla Firefox

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chappill

Sep 4 2008, 05:39 PM

Go for either Ubuntu or PClinuxOS (which I highly recommend) for a first Linux system, they are both nice looking and both have package managers! I've been using it problem free for 8 months and I like it, it's picked up my scanner, 2 usb pens, printer and speakers no problem (which is alot better than vista, my modem didn't work and it asked me to download the latest driver -.-)

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