[Cialug] Linux version

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Asking what Linux distribution to run is liable to start a flame war.

For relative beginners i'd suggest Ubuntu. If Knoppix runs well on your 
machine and you like it well enough, you could also just install 
Knoppix to the hard drive.

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:04, Keith Carpenter wrote:
>I have been running Knoppix Linux from cd for some time now.  I have
> two machines I want to reformat and run Linux on. 
>The first machine is a Toshiba Laptop, a Sattellite 1735.  It has a 60
> gig hard drive, 700mhz cpu, 256meg of ram. 
>The second machine is a home built AMD Athlon, 120 gig hard drive,
> 2200mhz cpu, 512meg of ram. 
>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! 
>Keith 
>
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