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What's A Good Starter Linux distro?

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. DreamSynthesis is a racist anti-Semite! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    You really should read this man's posting history -- he insulted a Jewish poster for speaking out against Nazi racism and atrocity. He is
    a Nazi sympathiser and has no place on Slashdot which is USUALLY a pretty Liberal site. Clean up Slashdot: ditch the racists.

  2. Troll -1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shouldn't he/she get a -1 for posting such a question?

  3. Anything but RedHat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whatever you get, don't use RedHat. :P