Have you not used Linux before? If you haven't, go with Ubuntu. There are things you will find irksome, but they are easily changed (especially if you ask on #trilug on irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>), and Ubuntu is very nice to teh noob.
Let us know what you install and how it performs. Cheers, CMP On 7/19/05, Carl Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you dont mind using Fluxbox, DSL is a darn-good distro to use. > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ > > It has everything that you want, and any other packages can be added to it > easily. > > On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Alan Porter wrote: > > > I'm like you, I can't stand it. So the first thing I do on a > > > Ubuntu system is "sudo bash" and then "passwd root". Then it'll > > > be just like what you were expecting, more like Debian, Red Hat, > > > etc. > > > > The Debian installer accepts a blank root password as indication that > > the user wants to use sudo (which is the setting that Ubuntu uses) and > > disables the root account. You could always choose "go back" and enter > > a password during the install (be it the express or the expert mode). > > > > -- > > Daniel T. Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG key: > > www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc<http://www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc> > > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > > > > > -- > Carl Crider > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer <http://ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer> "Television-free since 2003" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
