As all posters before have been quite wholesome on your questions,so I don't want add much more to that.
Debian seems to be a good choice, especially the packet manager apt-get can make your life a lot easier than rpm based distributions can. I thought I might just mention my favourite/pet distribtuion called Peanut-Linux as another option for some reasons : It comes with enlightenment preconfigured as default wm but also has a nice choice of other wm rpms. It still lets you change everything in config files (or requires it) so it doesn't "dumb you down" too much, the basic hardware detection / setup is easy though. The hardware detection is pretty good (it uses the same as redhat, kudzu IIRC) You don't have to chose any packages at install time. It rather works by install basic set then add RPMs later. (First rpm I get is gcc) Drawback/Advantage ? Uses RPMs for packages. Which can be a pain at times, but also enables you to use a host of packages out there. The Peanut community is VERY helpful, although small. So if you want to troubleshoot more involved problems with certain apps you might have to go to the application's BBS. Have a look at it on www.ibilio.org/peanut Whatever you go for, I wish you lots of fun :D James Niland __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
