What linux distribution can you advise for newbees?
By nash3181
@nash3181 (124)
Philippines
9 responses
@scammerwear (1433)
• Singapore
11 May 07
Right now, Ubuntu would be a good choice. It's heavily developed with an actual team working on it full time, yet it's free to use for all. The user interface is simple and the learning curve is not as steep as some other version of Linux. If you want to just try it out, get the live CD for it ;)
@scammerwear (1433)
• Singapore
11 May 07
Red hat has gone enterprise and is no longer released as open source, a spin off project called Fedora based on red hat is still open source though. It's not as user friendly as Ubuntu, you're better off with that.
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
11 May 07
I'd say Ubuntu, using it as well myself and compared to a couple of others I've tried you have to dive into the command line least here so far.
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@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
11 May 07
I would suggest Ubunto too, or Kubunto to be more precise, the distribution that comes with KDE. I prefer KDE to Gnome, but that is a matter of taste I guess.
@andben (1075)
• Italy
16 Jun 07
There are a lot of Linux distributions around and it is no easy to find the best distribution for everyone.
However I think there are some distro easy to use like Mandriva 2007.1 Spring Edition and Ubuntu (Kubunto if you prefer KDE), so my suggestion is to try one of them, they are easy to install and use.
Good luck.
@brothertuck (1257)
• United States
11 May 07
Right now there are a couple of distro's that are out there, the 2 I would say to try are Ubuntu, and FreeSpire.
Both can be downloaded or a live cd mailed to you, so you can give it a test run before you install it.
Have fun
@brothertuck (1257)
• United States
11 May 07
For Ubuntu you can go to http://www.Ubuntu.com for Freespire go to http://freespire.org
@ritwikghoshal (405)
• India
11 May 07
i will suggest you fedora core 6 (not 7 , because fc7 has released its beta version only). if you can subscribe RHEL5(red hat enterprise linux)then it will be better. but don't use it without subscription.... it would be useless...
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@cnetboss (2475)
• Philippines
24 May 07
Ubuntu is the most user friendly of the linux distributions. Most of the applications are now comparable to its windows counterparts.
@infinityplus1 (206)
• United States
24 May 07
My vote for Kubuntu out here. And yes, don't forget to try beryl. It's pretty cool. Once you start using Beryl, normal window managers look lame. Now I am not amazed by the woobly windows and 3d desktop but they seem natural to me. When I don't have those, the desktop looks very ordinary.
