hi
does anybody know which of the different linux operating systems is the best
is there a site like betaone for linux as well
thanks

I prefer Mandrake 8.2 although Red Hat 7.2 is good. I here that SUSE 8 is supposed to be brilliant, although I haven't tried it myself.

www.linuxnewbie.org (click on the discussion button)

Hope this helps.

Depends on what you need and like ?

I like Slackware but it doesnt do anything for sure you have to get your hands dirty for it. :D

Debian

love suse now on 8.0 i like it but mandrake was oke for me too

1 - Mandrake
2 - RedHat
3 - Slackware

Advice - dont use bestlinux

Its one of the first I tried... Its incredibly slow compared to other distros, its outdated, etc....

Mandrake is nice... and I tried the Suse liveval CD and that rocks... A whole distro you can boot and run of the CD... no harddisk required (although if you dont have a fat32 partition any changes you make in linux are lost on restart)

I prefer RedHat, currently released 7.3 which is quite good.

To be honest I haven't tried any of the others. Just pick one of the most popular distributions and try it!

I installed SuSE Pro v.8 and it set up amazing easy. Although i got an internet connection through me 4 port LinkSys router ok, I couldn't get it to "see" the LAN, nor could the LAN see this machine, although the DHCP table showed the Linux machine. I guess there is still a configuration procedure I need to figure out.


Perhaps I shall try Red Hat 7.3 and see how that does.

Wish i could buy a new computer!! :(