Hello

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Welcome,
    I've used many distros. Cut my Linux teeth on Caldera 2.1.  
Currently using SUSE 9.0 on my workstation. I have an old notebook with 
Mandrake 9.2 on it and and old 500Mhz Athlon file server with Red Hat 
9.0. All seem to work great. Would like to venture into the realm of 
Gentoo, but time is not something I have much of these days. I'm 
rehabbing from a broken wrist.  I like my machines to run fast, and 
Reiserfs is the fastest of the journaling file systems available.  It is 
not an option on a Red Hat/Fedora  install so I opt for SUSE and 
Mandrake for that respect.. I have had trouble installing SUSE on 
several boxes though. My workstation is a dual Athlon MP 1800+ with 3 
Ultra320 scsi 37gig drives. It primarily is used for Multimedia 
applications and open source program compiling. This is the only box 
SUSE gave me no trouble installing on.
    If you need disk, I live in Wheatfield ( about 10-15 min form NU), 
and can burn any distro you want.
Bob



Andrew Schultz 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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