Re: Need Distro Recommendation

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

Lars Strojny wrote:
> Jlawrence tacenergy com wrote on Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:18:29 -0600:
>
>
> > 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
>
>
> I don't know about your experience in Linux but I think that Gentoo-Linux
> is the right for you.

Anyone identifying themselves as 'somewhat of a Linux newbie' should not 
be looking at Gentoo.

Check out SuSE 8.1 or Mandrake 9.0.  I personally have been quite 
impressed with the ease of installation of SuSE 8.1.  I've done 4 
installs over the past few days.  Very clean installs.

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