Re: FN-FORUM: Best Linux Distribution?

date posted 18th August 2004 20:17

On Wednesday 18 Aug 2004 6:57 pm, Joe Freeman wrote:

> People seem to say Slackware is good though I have never tried it. You
> could always try Gentoo if you have Linux knowledge already, though my
> attempt at installing it failed miserably.=20

If you follow the instructions very carefully, and you're installing to=20
reasonably standard hardware you shouldn't really have a problem.

> are basically all the same. I've always found the Linux desktop to be
> quite a lot more resource hungry than the Windows shell though.

Which desktop would that be?

You can always choose to use something lightweight.