Steve,
Some distros are easier/better in many various ways. I usually
recommed SuSE, as it comes with a lot of applications, and conforms the
the unnoficial "standards" RedHat and its variants(Mandrake) are kinda
like proprietary distros, however i do like mandrake... its a pretty easy
full featured (for a single cdrom) distro. The big deal however is the
hardware you use, especially the video card, as well as modem, and
soundcard, hardware makes more difference in ease of install IMHO. If you
bring your machine to the thursday install clinic, we (a bunch of more
experienced linux users, and newbies alike) will be happy to help you
figure things out. You might want to try the new SuSE 6.3 that will likely
be present. I (if i can remember) will try to bring a bunch of older
distros i dont need and am happy to donate to whomever may want them.
Jamie
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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Stephen Brenner wrote:
> Are some distributions better for x-windows setup?
>
> I had a 486-120 with an old ati card that setup easily.
> I switched to a 486-133 with a matrox millenium and a
> Mag DX1595 and it refuses to Xconfigure with Redhat 6.0
> or 6.1. I've ordered the Mandrake cd to see if it
> recognizes devices better. Redhat couldn't even find
> my future domain scsi card.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
