what version of linux to use?

adams · #1 30th Oct 04, 05:57 PM

i have a new computer that i would like to play around with different os's before putting xp on it. what is a good version of linux to put on for a newbie?

i've already tried linspire and everything went fine until it got to the desktop and it just hung, wouldn't let me do anything so that option is out.

thanks.

war59312 · #2 30th Oct 04, 08:59 PM

Hey,

Maybe Red Hat 9 and Xandros 2.0.

And maybe this one:

hxxp://releases.ubuntu.com/warty/warty-release-install-i386.iso

cya,
Will

rikytik · #3 31st Oct 04, 01:19 AM

Anybody who hasn'tg tried Xandros is missing something.

war59312 · #4 31st Oct 04, 01:27 AM

Yeap. Now I'm pissed off. I cant find where I downloaded the damn thing to. I got it installed in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 SP1 but I cant find the darn isos. lol

Forgot to burn it.

Now waiting for locate32 to finish updating its datebase. hehe If it cant find it then nothing can.

marcovaleriof · #5 31st Oct 04, 03:59 PM

check http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html , you can search for category of use, plattaform, language, etc

but my two cents go to gentoo linux http://www.gentoo.org/ (yes, the source based one!) the best if you want to play and learn linux!

have fun!

another good site for choices in a *old* post by felixml: http://distrowatch.com/

war59312 · #6 31st Oct 04, 04:37 PM

Download all of them here.

http://www.linuxiso.org/

Go ahead and download all 15 of them.

fritz122 · #7 4th Nov 04, 01:28 PM

war59312

What is "warty"...i hav only see a ftp-file-directory on your link.
Where see i more infos over this OS ? Is it a Linux-distro ?

Please send me more infos over this...thank you my Friend

war59312 · #8 5th Nov 04, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fritz122

war59312

What is "warty"...i hav only see a ftp-file-directory on your link.
Where see i more infos over this OS ? Is it a Linux-distro ?

Please send me more infos over this...thank you my Friend

Hey,

Yeah its linux.

hxxp://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Tons of screen shots:

hxxp://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=156&slide=17

Take Care,
Will

adams · #9 5th Nov 04, 12:20 AM

i want one that is very easy to install. i just want to play around the desktop environment to see what it is like.

something like lycoris looked easy, but they only have a 45 day trial. which i'm sure is long enough, but i'd rather not have a limit in my usage time.

marcovaleriof · #10 6th Nov 04, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adams

i want one that is very easy to install. i just want to play around the desktop environment to see what it is like.

something like lycoris looked easy, but they only have a 45 day trial. which i'm sure is long enough, but i'd rather not have a limit in my usage time.

then you can try knoppix! (http://www.knoppix.org/)

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.
KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

no time limit! linux is free, free as in freedom