Re: Linux for newbies

[Brian Jones <brian () slowbox com>]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:22 pm, Matt Atkins wrote:

> In my first of many posts, I would like to ask the group what flavor of
> Linux is recommended for a newbie.

Mandrake and Red Hat are the most newbie friendly IMHO but I think that 
Mandrake has better HW detection.

> I will probably be purchasing a
> book or 2 to help get things off the ground, so a good book recommendation
> would also be appreciated.

Running Linux by O reilly is a good book.
HTH.
-- 
Brian
Registered Linux user #323911. http://counter.li.org
http://www.slowbox.com
Calm down -- it's only ones and zeroes.
 13:12:00 up 16 days, 21:36,  2 users,  load average: 1.02, 1.06, 1.10


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