Which is the best linux flavour according to u ????

hey i am new to this field and jst want some answers before installing a flavour...

plz suggest one ..........

Debian GNU/Linux(Ubuntu,mepis....)
Gentoo Linux..
if for a n00b i'll suggest Mandriva...

for n00bs,definetly Mandriva or SUSe

Try a live cd first before plunging in...

M

For a hard disk install Mandrive, OpenSuse or Fedora for sure.
But, it would be more sensible to go for a live cd. Best ones are Ubuntu live, knoppix, linspire. Linspire live was given out with a past issue of digit in DVD, you'll have to burn it in a cd. Ubuntu is available in this month's LFY.
You can get a list of live cd's here Live cd's

someone suggested Redhat linux

howz it ????

Depends on your taste..Try it if you like it your set.It depends on you..Try the distros you have...And use the one that configures all your hardware ..

For the so-called newbies, lemme suggest Fedora Core 4 and with a DSL connection and YUM with some guidance from Stanton Finley
I'll bet we will start learning as well as enjoying linux in no time.

You may begin with mandriva or linspire if you dont really wanna go deep in the learning process. But I would suggest you to go for Ubuntu. It will let you explore you a wonderful world of opensource softwares and technologies. Synaptic in ubuntu will help you get more than thousands of free softwares. Try using the free live cd. You may also go for Fedora but it comes in 4 cds whereas ubuntu requires only 1 which is packed with the most of the required softwares.

C

ya fedora with 4 cds is any one of them live cd
plz let me kno
i have got them on a dvd (digit)

No.. Fedora doesn`t have a livecd.It requires all the 4 cds to install..

C

what about the slackware linux on digit dvd does it have a live cd

Digit gave slackware??? Which month! :roll:

C

i little mistake

sorry guys it was chip cd with slackware

august 2005

All i could find on the August 2005 DVD was FC4.

Digit never gave SlackWare... Chip magazine did..

slackware is not for noobs.

But it is for an eager newbie who want's to learn. It's a gr8 distro for those of us who doesn't like the automated configuration tools which of course, aren't flexible.

I tried Slackware..I liked ..You have got to do everythng your self...You learn a lot.

C

so slackware is def. not for me
any other decent linux
i am waiting

C

Go for Ubuntu its the best distro,,, it won the award for best distribution this year

D

Do u guys even use one distro seriously,
this is just one's perseption u r talking............................................................

T

coolendra said:
someone suggested Redhat linux

howz it ????

RedHat is mainly for the enterprise.... If u r a noob, u need to go for mandriva or suse.... maybe u can try knoppix for a while...

Not necessarily, You cannot label something as Only for Enterprise. I mean RHEL (WS) is equallly good in desktop too, but the features like rhn does make it feel like Enterprise Segment

I've been using Fedora for 1 and a half yrs and staisfied by it ! Initially tried Suse 9.1,Mandrake,Elx for a 2 weeks but didnt like them!

@mediator: Usually fedora demands to have the latest distro and they withdraw support for earlier distro's. Is there any particular reason that you are keeping Fedora core 1?

M

@satish are u getting late for going somewhere? If not reread mediator's post again. He said he is using fedora for '1 and a half year' and not 'fedora 1' for half year.
Also, I am trying out gentoo now. It seems really great. It can teach users of my experience a lot of knowledge on linux otherwise hard to learn. I feel its a great distro if u're ready to give it time and efforts.

Oh no! my bad..
Missed that for.. :lol:

hahaha!
Gentoo is a fantastic distro.. but actually it's more of a LFS than a distro. It doesn't need much time, though compiling takes a lot of time.
By the way what did you use for CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS values. For P4 we need to use -march=i686 -pipe -O2 or i586. I used ${CFLAGS} for CXXFLAGS too.

V

For a newbie i suggest Mandriva Linux 2006. It is very user friendly. I learnt linux by using Mandriva Linux. So I definitely recomment that distro.

I prefer ubuntu for newbies since its dosen`t have the root account enabled by default so they won`t be able to do any damage to the system by mistake...