Re: Need Distro Recommendation

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Jlawrence tacenergy com wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> Being somewhat of a Linux newbie, I have always defaulted to Red Hat since
> it was the easiest to install and get up and running.  Now that I have a
> *little* experience under my belt, I would like to try something different.
> I am somewhat miffed about RH 8.0 and how it customizes Gnome for you, so I
> would like to get some people's recommendation for a distribution that meets
> these requirements:
> 
> 1.  Plays well with laptops.  This will be going on my Dell Inspiron 2650.
> Except for the Nvidia video chipset, everything "just works."  I can get the
> video working just fine.  Because I am inexperienced with hardware, I need a
> distro that will auto-detect these sorts of things.
> 2.  Has a current (>2.0) version and stock install of Gnome.  This is the
> main reason that I want to try something different - I want a stock install
> of Gnome that hasn't been jacked with in some way.
> 
> So, any suggestions?
> 
> Josh Lawrence

Mandrake 9 -> and then update it so that it's close to 9.1 (the beta for
9.1 is already in realease, so 9.1 proper should be out relatively soon)

BTW, RH 8.1 is coming out in April...with many changes...
(Hope they're good, cuz I'm not moving from RH 7.3 til then)

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