Progeny seem to be a good starter distro. One can use it initially and graduate to the more complete Debian distro, which Progeny is a subset of.
Also Progeny comes from the father of Debian. Also GNOME comes very well customised. Progeny also has a good hardware detection program, which recognizes almost all the hardware, thereby reducing the problems for newbies.
Did you all notice that the references given at the end of the chapters are all O'Reilly titles? This is conspiracy. Real Hackers should keep away from the book. There are lots of Free Documentation out there, which one can give as references. But ESR chose to support the major supporter of his Open Source Movement.
Also I found ESR's Unix Book to be of low quality and not comprehensive. It's not for Hackers. Boycott the book!!!
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Progeny seem to be a good starter distro. One can use it initially and graduate to the more complete Debian distro, which Progeny is a subset of. Also Progeny comes from the father of Debian. Also GNOME comes very well customised. Progeny also has a good hardware detection program, which recognizes almost all the hardware, thereby reducing the problems for newbies.
Did you all notice that the references given at the end of the chapters are all O'Reilly titles? This is conspiracy. Real Hackers should keep away from the book. There are lots of Free Documentation out there, which one can give as references. But ESR chose to support the major supporter of his Open Source Movement. Also I found ESR's Unix Book to be of low quality and not comprehensive. It's not for Hackers. Boycott the book!!!