Anthony Brown wrote:
Thanks.
I really thought there were major differences and I would be a fool to
choose one over another.
But it seems the decision of what distribution to use is idiot proof.
I just need to choose one and go with it..
(Bugger! trapped by Reply to)
Err... it's not quite idiot proof.
e.g. you probably shouldn't use Ipcop as your desktop distro.
:-)
IndLinux would probably also be a bad idea
(unless you are a native Hindi speaker)
ClusterKnoppix might also be a mistake
i.e. avoid the specialist distros
But the mainstream ones are all "pretty much of a muchness"
Fedora
Mandriva(nee Mandrake)
Debian
Ubuntu
Suse
Gentoo
Xandros
Redhat
Slackware
Mepis
I have certainly forgotten/missed some here but these ones all have
varying ease of installation etc but will all pretty much do what the
others will.
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