I would throw my .02 cents on Arch linux. The documentation is excellent and it starts you at a very base level. It all depends on how "wet" you want to get when jumping into the pool. If you want an XP like experience (mostly) out of the box, stick with the Ubuntus or the PCLinuxOS (or RPM equivalents CentOS or Fedora etc). If you would like to build your experience then Arch is a great place to start, or the BSD's, or Slack or Gentoo. I would burn a few live CDs and muck about with each before jumping in.
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:28 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:24 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you John and Russell. With what you said and what I'm > >> gathering from a thread on the Ubuntu users list I think desired > >> effect is possible. Just not by route I was thinking of. > >> > >> Someone pointed me to http://ubuntu-manual.org/ . Just downloaded > >> it. Now for some 'lite' (or at least enlightening) reading. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > > > I can't find the site right now but there is an online tool that let's > > you create a custom package build CD/DVD based on Fedora or Ubuntu so > > it contains only what you want. > > > > If you want really stripped down you could always come to the dark > > side and run NetBSD :) > > > > Here's what I was thinking of : https://reconstructor.apphosted.com/ > > Drew- > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Darren R. Couch [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
