Linux Distribution choice help

i'll have to agree with D0pp139an93r, thats really true, when you have any problems you can always ask ypure friends. What are friends For ?

This question always strikes me as being along the lines of "How long is a piece of string?". The answer of course
is it depends.

The truth about all the Linux Distributions is that the software is mostly the same, all have Apache, MySQL, emacs,
gcc, Python, Perl, etc. Installation is not that big of a factor in my _oh_so_humble_opinion unless you plan to be
reinstalling a lot, which hopefully most people don't do. Software installation, more due to dependencies than
the install tool itself are something to consider. Hardware support is the same on all Linux Distributions, think about
it, they are all using the Linux kernel.

The best advice I can give is install whatever Distro, just pick one. Then learn it really well. Once you are bored with
it due to experience and knowledge (which will come much faster than you think), make a good backup and install
another Distro and learn that one. The truth is, most people have to try serveral Distro's before the settle on what
their particular favorite is; one size does not fit all in Linux, and that's is probably one of the best things about it.

-- spurious

note *bsd is not linux it is unix, and linux is a unix-like not actually unix that note aside i agree mostly with !mitationRust but why is everyone suggesting RedHat, it the worst linux out there, it is poorly compiled, has dozens of bugs not fixed, is somewhat unstable etc..... and mandrake isnt much better, SuSe is good, Freebsd is awesome, Debian is great but not all that well packaged, um Slackware is dandy ole, NetBsd is very good, OpenBsd is also very good, Gentoo is nice

myself, I've actually started to take quite a liking to Vector Linux

http://www.vectorlinux.com/

based on Slackware... but is easier to install and runs nicely on lower end computers

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