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Old August 21st, 2002, 04:35 AM
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Simple simple newbie Linux questions
Hi everyone,

Ive built myself a small PC out of odds and ends I had lying around. Just a P2 400 with 128mb of RAM and a 4gb hard drive. I want to install Linux on it and start learning more about it.

What release of Linux would you recommend for a beginner ?

I know RedHat is the OS installed at my web host so I thought that would be a good place to start, am I right in thinking this ?

Many thanks for any info.
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Old August 21st, 2002, 04:43 AM
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I would recommend Red Hat or Suse to beginners,so go with Red Hat.
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Old August 21st, 2002, 04:55 AM
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Thanks, Ill go and download it now.

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Old August 23rd, 2002, 03:20 AM
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Make sure you download the md5sum file and run an md5sum program on the file you download and check that they're the same. iso files don't have any other form of check.

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Old August 23rd, 2002, 04:20 AM
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If you really want to learn Linux, then go for Slackware then install everything from stratch by yourself such as X, lightweight wm to force yourself use command line more and more power to yourself too and etc....

I find that newbie who went for SuSE, Mandrake, RedHat and other baby Linux distros, they end up a slow learner, because of addict to heavy of use GUI and etc.
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Old August 23rd, 2002, 05:14 AM
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Hi, I've already downloaded Redhat but thanks for your help.

I just want to have a basic working knowledge of Linux to start with and I dont really have much free time at present so a GUI version will be good to kick off with.

Thanks again.
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