[nflug] hi

[paul costa]

John G. Boice wrote:
> Hi, Ryan.
>
> One of the most painless ways to get into learning Linux is to use a
> Live CD.  Some distributions have them, some do not.  If you set you
> BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM first, a LiveCD will boot your computer
> without affecting anything on your hard drive.
>
> Of course since everything is running in your RAM or directly off the
> CD, it is slower than an installed version of Linux would be.  But it's
> a no-mistakes way to get introduced to the look and feel of some of the
> modern distros.
>
> I prefer Mepis, myself.  The current stable version is 6.0, but 6.5 is
> in Release Candidate 3, and so might be fine to try. I have had no
> problems with it.
>
> Another good distro for beginners is PCLinuxOS.  It has very good
> hardware detection out-of-the-box, and looks beautiful.
>
> Ubuntu is the most popular distro for new users. It is the first one I
> ever tried, back in 2004.  I don't use it myself anymore very much, but
> that is a matter of personal taste. Many NFLUG members like it and use it.
>
> Are you familiar with how to download and burn an ISO file to produce a CD?
>
> --John
>
>
> Ryan Slomiany wrote:
>   
>> hi, my name's ryan.
>>
>> i'm new to linux and interested in learning it.
>>
>> which distribution do you recommend? how do I get
>> started? and when's the next meeting?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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I've been using Suse linux since 2000, and it has proved itself to be a 
stable and  friendly  environment.
It comes with thousands of useful utilities, and tools.
Suse Linux is one of the oldest distros out there and there is tons of 
suport.
Go to http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org and download their 
10.2 vr.
Suse is now supported by the well known Novell corp. and has great support
You can download an iso, burn it, then use the disk for  install. Thats 
how ido it.
You can of course use a live cd.
I use KDE desktop as well as Gnome, and both run fairly smoothly.
Hope this helped

paul
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