What's A Good Starter Linux distro?

Posted by Hemos on Sunday August 12, 2001 @04:49PM from the start-the-flame-wars-early dept.

alen writes "I've been working with NT for a year now, and I'm getting really tired of it. So I finally decided to learn Linux, after a year of putting it off. I've got an old P2 266 that I'm going to use. Now the next question is what distro do I get? What's a good starter version? I'm just looking to get the feel of it and to play around a little. " This question gets asked periodically - it's always good to hear have a lively discussion about it - I love my Debian but have heard that Mandrake is a good starter distro.

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Re:Depends... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-12 17:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Slackware is bottom of the barrel when it comes to distros. It will not teach you anything about linux as it is not standard, and lacks many useful features such as package managment. It is very much like netBSD is to freeBSD, where the former is no better, but users use it to feel more 'elite' than the users of the latter.

Try debian, if you have problems go to mandrake until you feel more comfortable.