On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, NNK wrote:
I was wondering what I should be looking at in the different distros before picking one to use.
Being a total novice, I don't have much experience on Linux, so I'm wondering what I should be asking.
Any advice?
In addition to Ray's advice, I'll add a couple of observations. The main problem you'll want to adress at the beginning is hardawre compatibility. Though that's gotten pretty good under Linux, you shouldn't just assume your hardware will be supported. If some important element of your setup is not supported, or is poorly supported, your foray into Linux could turn sour quickly.
A couple of ways to adress this: 1) find a distro with a good support community (e.g., Ubuntu is a newbie-oriented distro with a really active forum) and ask about your hardware there ahead of time. This presumes you know what kind of hardware is in, or attached to, your machine. What kind of NIC/modem, video card, hard drive controller card (if any), usb devices, printer. That sort of thing. Short of finding out all that, you could try a less involved option: 2) download and burn a copy of a live CD like Knoppix, boot from it and see if everything works ok.
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