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100% newb - please help
Post 41139 by cw1972 on Tuesday 30th of September 2003 06:08:50 AM
09-30-2003
I am also a relative newbie to Linux.
So far I have performed installs of Red Hat 8 & 9, and also SuSE 8.0 & 8.2, I have found them both to be very friendly during install, finding almost 100% of my hardware and suggesting drive partitions.
Now using the Linux OS is another matter altogether, I am building up a base familiarity of command line programs and their relative options, something which is going quite slowly but surely.
There are a lot of resources out on the web, but I'm still looking for something definitive.
At the moment I am trying to work out how to configure DNS settings for my router/leased line and also how to send file attachments using the mail/sendmail command line (that's how I got here actually
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So in answer to your original question I would recommend Red Hat or SuSE.
Good luck,
Christian
So far I have performed installs of Red Hat 8 & 9, and also SuSE 8.0 & 8.2, I have found them both to be very friendly during install, finding almost 100% of my hardware and suggesting drive partitions.
Now using the Linux OS is another matter altogether, I am building up a base familiarity of command line programs and their relative options, something which is going quite slowly but surely.
There are a lot of resources out on the web, but I'm still looking for something definitive.
At the moment I am trying to work out how to configure DNS settings for my router/leased line and also how to send file attachments using the mail/sendmail command line (that's how I got here actually
)So in answer to your original question I would recommend Red Hat or SuSE.
Good luck,
Christian
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