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<DIV><SPAN class=062310420-04042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I used
to be a Redhat, Fedora, CentOS kind of guy, but I'm switching over to be more
Ubuntu/Debian. The Ubuntu and Kubuntu (for KDE) distributions are very
nice. Fedora will load too much stuff on your laptop so you will have to
cut stuff down to make it perform better (if that is a concern). Debian
runs lean and (IMHO) ubuntu is a good compromise.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062310420-04042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Certainly Others in the group will point out the merits of Mandriva and
Suse.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062310420-04042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Whatever you get used to is what you will come to prefer. Mandriva
or Kubuntu will probably come closest to Knoppix. Debian with KDE is
also similar but much more spartan.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062310420-04042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Keith Carpenter
[mailto:wd0fia@hotmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:04
PM<BR><B>To:</B> cialug@cialug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug] Linux
version<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>I have been running Knoppix Linux from cd for some time
now. I have two machines I want to reformat and run Linux on.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>The first machine is a Toshiba Laptop, a Sattellite 1735.
It has a 60 gig hard drive, 700mhz cpu, 256meg of ram.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>The second machine is a home built AMD Athlon, 120 gig hard
drive, 2200mhz cpu, 512meg of ram.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>I have several versions of Linux available, and would
like what version would be best. I believe Fedora is the current
release? Knoppix has ran fine from the cd, but I have been
told by several ham friends to run Red Hat instead. Any comments/
suggestions would be appreciated!</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Keith </DIV></DIV><BR clear=all>
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