[Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> If I don't install anything after the reload and browse to the www.kcci.com site I get a box with "Click here to download plugin" in the middle.  You are correct that I can browse the rest of the page without any seeming problems.  It is just missing something that I would normally see when using a Windows browser to visit this site.
>>
>> Is this what you mean?
>>
>>     
>
> Hi, Debian is not well known to be the most "easy to get your feet
> wet" with distribution. If you don't mind me tossing out a biased
> suggestion, I'd like to suggest trying out Ubuntu. It's closely
> related to Debian and makes a lot of the common "new to LInux" tasks
> quite easy. Pretty much all of the software you can use on Debian is
> available for Ubuntu since Ubuntu pulls from debian every few months.
> As a matter of fact, numerous Debian developers are employed by
> Canonical, the sponsors of Ubuntu. It also has some partner software
> from vendors such as vmware, adobe and sun so things like java, flash
> and etc. installation is quite easy.
>
> Just an idea.
>   
I'd agree that Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, same thing but defaults to KDE 
instead of Gnome) is much easier to use for newbies than Debian.

I would also suggest trying Mandriva - it has a good reputation for 
being easy to use, as well as having a lot of advanced features.

-dc