[ale] newbie distro... revisited

[Geoffrey]

Jason Vinson wrote:
> morning folks,
> 
> I was talking to a friend at church last night about pc's and what
> not, and he mentioned that he is using windows 98 se.  From what I
> gathered from our conversation, he has a laptop as well, which he
> uses for most of his computing needs, so I figured I could give him
> some linux-evangelism.  I assume that since his desktop machine is
> running win98se, it is probably older, non-top end hardware.  So what
> do you think would be a good distro for him?  He's a CPSC guy at
> GaTech, so I am relatively sure he won't be too overwhelmed by it.  I
> was thinking either RH 8.0 or SuSE 8.0 (since i have the the
> professional CD set that I don't even use).

Either one would be a good choice.  I'd recommend the following order 
for a newbie:

SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat

SuSE first because I've been very impressed by my latest installs of it. 
  Mandrake second, because I don't see much difference between Mandrake 
and Red Hat, further, Mandrake seems to me to boot faster.

Since you've got the SuSE and don't use it, I'd go with it, (or donate 
it to ALE to be given away as a door prize. :) )

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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