[CLUE-Talk] New here

[Richard Knechtel]

I Second the Use of SuSE!  I just had a flawless, unpainful install of SuSE 
7.2 over the new years weekend. I can only say - It rocks!

At 03:26 PM 1/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Jeffery Cann wrote:
>
>>Will,
>>
>>I have used Linux for about 7 years.  I have tried a number of Linux 
>>distributions and recommend the following:
>>
>>Mandrake Linux (http://www.mandrake.com/)
>>Red Hat Linux (http://www.redhat.com/)
>I have had good luck with installing Red Hat, Suse, and Caldera. 
>Currently, I use Suse for 3 reasons.
>1)  I like their installer, and it finds my hardware pretty well.
>2)  Their distro tends to have everything I want (as well as a lot I don't 
>care about)
>3)  Their online update for patches works very nicely.
>
>Some of the other distributions allow more in depth looking at things 
>during the install, but for a first time, I would reccomend an easy to 
>install one over the extra control.
>
>Also, make sure you either know about disk partitioning, or have a helper 
>who does.  It is very easy to delete something important while 
>partitioning the drive.  It does not take very long to make a really big 
>mess with fdisk.
>
>
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