Hello

[Robert Meyer]

Well,  Nothing like tossing a grenade into a room... :-)

There are as many answers to which distribution to use as there are
distributions...  My personal choice has been Mandrake for desktop systems and
RedHat for servers.  Peter from Cybersource will disagree with that and we
banter about it all the time here...  He just has the flaw of liking
Fedora/RedHat for the desktop :-)  (Hi, Pete!)

Whatever distribution you get, make sure that you get a current version. 
Mandrake is currently at 9.2 with V10 in the wings.  I don't know what Fedora
(RedHat) is up to but the standard RedHat distribution stopped at 9.0.

Everyone, pipe up with the current version numbers of your favorite
distributions...

Cheers!

Bob
--- Andrew Schultz <ajs at schultzny.net> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I surfed across this site via a link from linux.org.  I am a student at 
> Niagara University and I am looking to learn more about Linux.  I do 
> have a basic understanding, but the more knowledge the better.  
> Currently the only machine I have at college is my laptop, running 
> Windows XP, but I am more than willing to install a Linux distro or 
> dual boot.
> 
> Enough rambling.  Basically what I am looking for is a suggestion to a 
> distro that is "newbie friendly" so to speak.  I do not have a lot of 
> experience in systems administration, but I am more than willing to 
> learn anything the LUG has to teach me.
> 
> Andrew Schultz
> ajs at schutlzny.net


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