Re: [BLUG] newbee

I haven't used CentOS, but I read good things about it online. I'm an
Ubuntu user, and I have tried some other distributions (Puppy, DSL,
PCLinuxOS) on live cd, but the experience isn't great because my laptop
(including optical drive speed) is so slow.

I was reading up on other distros and was thinking about changing, but
the great thing about Linux that I finally realized was that if you use
a good, reliable and well supported distribution as your base, you can
customize almost all of them to be exactly what you want. So if you
start with Ubuntu and realize you prefer KDE, it can be installed and
ready to be used in 5 minutes.

I realized I can learn a lot more and have more fun by customizing one
distribution than obsessing over deciding one. So, after all that
rambling I guess what I'm trying to say is just find one that's known to
be stable and well supported and play with it until it is exactly what
you want.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly McEvilly [mailto:kellym@wbhcp.com]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:41 AM
To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group
Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee

OK, since the topic was raised, I'm pretty much a complete noob too.

I'm concentrating on CentOS right now.

Good, bad, indifferent???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2009 8:46:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:15:19 -0500, Sidarth Dasari
<Sidster802@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ive heard Linux Mint is also quite user friendly for new users, and of
> course if there is always Ubuntu or Kubuntu which your distro is based
> off of

Alright, that's it, I have to throw in Slackware here. :) The installer
is
a little intimidating if you don't know how to use an ncurses partition

utility, but other than that, Slackware is great for the starting user
who
wants to learn about Linux. On the other hand, if you don't want to
learn
a different modus operandi from Windows, other systems might work better

for you. :-)

Aaron W. Hsu

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