On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > Doesn't RedHat 7 come with XFree4? People should probably NOT be using Red > > Hat betas... especially newbies. > > Yes it does. However I find 7.1beta2 (Wolverine) _MUCH_ more stable than > 7.0. > > > I'd say go with Mandrake. It's supposed to be the most User Friendly of > > distributions. I recently installed almost all major distros and it did > > seem to be the easiest one to install if you've never done it before. > > Recomended that too :) Since no one's doing it, I'll be the first to recommend Debian, so that you can learn on a system that works first, then you can break, I mean upgrade it, later. ;) Shoot, I guess now I'm ineligible for the pool as to how long it takes the new guy to switch to Debian. No, actually, unless it's a laptop or slightly odd hardware, I'd do Debian so that its easier to play with installing/deinstalling packages while you figure out what you really like to use, but I don't say that to start a distro jihad. Cheers, Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous