Recommedations

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Wed Feb 18 11:43:10 UTC 2004


> I am currently running on windows XP pro and it's getting to the point of
> I blaming Windows (Microsoft) for all of the problems that i have been
> having. I would like to try another OS but It cant be too advanced.
>
> I am a newbie in Linux so maybe you guys can help.
>
> What do you recommand me on downloading that is 1 step ahead of windows.
>
> thanks
>
> Brittany
>
What i IMHO could recommend is, you build your first opinion by yourself,
whether you find linux the right os for you. Best you can do is trying out
with knoppix. it's a bootable cd, which directly starts a linux, and as i
remember the main software should be up on this cd. Also, this leaves your
harddisk as it is at the moment, you work from cdrom...

Afterwards, if the knoppix-introdction gave you a good feeling (i am sure
about...) you have a lot of distributions like Fedora (my personal
favourite), debian, mandrake (free for download) or suse (ftp-installation
or boxed product). There are many many others, those - i think - should be
the most known.

A good info-source would be linux-magazine edition february 2004, where
you got a bit comparison test between the most known distros.
Unfortunately, the have just the intro-online...

btw.: knoppix you get on one cd on http://www.knoppix.org

HTH
Roger





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