Best for beginers – Fedora Core, SUSE, Mandrake or Ubuntu?

3 Comments

1. Tim says:

   20. March 2010 at 12:13

   That would definitely be SUSE.

   Here’s a helpful link: http://www.linuxiso.org/

2. 43moon says:

   20. March 2010 at 12:13

   I tried them all, and none of them felt right to me until I found Ubuntu.

   Ubuntu is a great way to go. It is free, and they will even send you free CD’s if you can’t download it for some reason (if you are asking a question here, I assume you are already online). For me, the best part of Ubuntu is the community. There is a great community of people from around the world, that are very polite and happy to help answer any questions that you have: http://www.ubuntuforums.org

   Even though Ubuntu is currently on version 5.1 (Breezy Badger), http://ubuntuguide.org which was written for version 5.04 (Warty Warthog), is still a great guide that is very helpful as well.

   Best of all, you can get Ubuntu in Gnome, KDE, and more. If you want, you can even choose which version to use when you log in (requires additional installation).

   The Synaptic Package Manager makes it VERY easy to install additional programs.

   There is a live CD is you would like to try that first:
   http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso…

   Give it a try, I am sure that you will like it. I installed Ubuntu as a dual-boot about 4 months ago, and I eventually removed Windows a month ago. I am here to stay.