Re: FN-FORUM: Best Linux Distribution?

date posted 18th August 2004 19:39

On 18 Aug 2004 16:29:50 -0000, "Richard Bennett" said:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:23, Caz Thomson wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have acquired a pentium 4 box, with 256 mb of RAM, that used to be loaded
> > with Windows ME (*spit*) until it crashed horribly. I'd like to load Linux
> > on the box instead, and use it as a separate dev box/workstation, running
> > an apache server if possible, so I'm looking for ideas on what you think
> > would be the best Linux distribution to download in your experience?
>
> I'd go with Mandrake 10.
> They say it's a good beginners distro, but as someone who works on Linux
> exclusively, every day, it is still the distro I end up using most often.

I'd recommend Mandrake as well. I've used v8 and v9 and it always
installed very smoothly and easily. However, you do then have to dig
around to find where to put things like your web pages, but that's the
same for every version of Linux (and indeed everything else.)

Cheers

Paul
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