Those who have spoken to me on #planetnix know that I'm whatever is below a n00b when it comes to linux... but thats besides the point...

What distribution do you suggest and reason for it? (Red Hat annoys me to no end)

distribution: gentoo

Reason: cos its the most powerful linux distribution available.

What if you are just only looking for something 'simple', 'easy' and user-friendly? Something to get you started with, i suppose. I've heard that Redhat is actually supposed to be exactly that

This post has been edited by Yakman: Jun 8 2004, 03:59 AM

then use redhat, or its forked version aimed at home users, called Fedora.

I would still recommend Gentoo, as long as you follow the Gentoo Handbook to a tee. I installed Gentoo a while ago as my first experience with Linux, that is I had never even touched Linux before. I followed the Handbook and everything worked perfectly. Obviously I asked a couple of questions here and there but overall it was really simple and user friendly.

Remember, www.gentoo.org and man <whatever> is your friend

Agreed, man is very helpful... thanks for the replies.

my first linux was (and still is) mandrake. i found it pretty easy to work with and a couple of games work in it as well :-) I would say go with mandrake, but then again i don't have that much experience with other distros...

id recommend suse as a beginner distro, it creams redhat and has a cool aura about it..

I have installed Redhat and am pretty happy with what i saw. I am still stuck on Windows - mostly because i'm too lazy to move out of my comfort zone and also coz i on't have all that much time available to learn all the in's and out's of Linux.

I have a problem tho - I ran a 2Gig hard drive and managed to pick up another 4Gig (As soon as the lafter subsides, i'd like to explain the rest of my problem )

windows ran on the 2GB and i installed Redhat on the 4GB. I ran out of space on the windows drive and removed redhat by repartitioning the drive. That screwed up the boot-up process coz now it boots into some command-prompt thingy and i cannot get to windows.

Reinstalling redhat helped to cure that but i'm still out of space. (New PC will have big enuf HD but it's only be here after middle o' the month )

PS for the Linux freaks out there, i promise to reinstall some Linux distro or the other - i already downloaded Gentoo and Mandrake ISO's for later experimentation, so please don't withold any info for fear of losing a possible Linux supporter
Just kidding. Pls help, i'm stuck.

If you want to get back to the old, windows only system, then off a boot disk type: fdisk /mbr
That will sort it out, alternatively, after you've repartitioned your drives and reinstalled linux, installing and seting up your boot loader will rewrite your mbr and everything will be just peachy.

Thanx.

I did re-install linux and the whole boot thingy was indeed peachy but i'm short of disk space. So tomorrow it is me and fdisk /mbr.

Thx (again)

I installed Mandrake a while back, being my first interaction with Linux I was a bit nervous but the installation and ease of use was brilliant. I unfortunately only had the 1st CD so I didnt have any of the cool applications to play around with, which was the only reason I took it off again.

I recently (yesterday) installed Lycoris, and it too is very easy to use and it has a Windows XP look and feel which should put newbies at ease (like myself).