As title, what's you favorite GNU/Linux distribution and why?

I used to use SUSE but had problems with 8.2. I'm now using Mandrake 10 and very good it is too.

Nick

I've only ever tried Mandrake and Red Hat. I preferred Mandrake simply because it's more user friendly, although purists would argue that Mandrake is a somewhat bastardised version of Linux. But that don't bother me, I'm a noob, can't compile a kernel or anything yet, I just happy if a distro works for me

I also have Slackware 9.1 on a couple of CD's I burnt from downloaded ISO's, might give that a try.

I'm currently putting together a machine mostly for Linux Distros, it has one of those hard disk caddies that I can swap HDD's in and out of. I have two 40Gb HDD's atm, going to load Win 98 (for old games and DOS) on one and Mandrake 10 on the other.

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Maybe Matt, maybe, but it's not exactly ground breaking stuff is it?

I have three of those HDD caddies I bought from a computer fair three of four years ago, figured I'd make use of them. Instead of having a multi boot system I figured I'd just swap OS's in and out.

It's a fairly risk free way of messing about with distros, imo. I could also put a hard disk in there for storage as well, divided into two partitions perhaps, FAT 32 and ext2, for data storage.

I have at last finally gathered all the parts to build this machine, I'm using an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, as the Abit KR7A-R board I was going to use was going a bit wobbly, was throwing up all kinds of errors, so I'm discarding it.

The Asus was a good compromise between cheap and good, I thought, it cost £35.00. Via chipset I know, but I'm doing this thing on the cheap.

As for an article, do you really think people would be interested? Hard disk caddies were all the rage three or four years ago, but one hardly hears them mentioned now. Or were you thinking more of the 'Noob tries several Linux Distros simultaneously' angle?

A7N8X-X is prob a better choice, similar price and nforce 2 chipset.

J

I think they'd (particularly newcomers) be interested in a breif roundup of the strengths and weaknesses of alot of them so they could decide which distro' is for them, granted it would probably be SuSe for most of them.

just installed redhat 9, anyone know of any websites with good tutorials, can even get internet setup.

i'm definately a windows freak! but want to broaden my horizons.

Cheers
J

Agreed, it's a better board, but it costs another tenner, and a tenner on top of a product costing only £35.00 is some considerable increase. I've already spent more on this thing than I intended, but isn't that always the way?

Matt:

I seriously doubt if I'd be qualified to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of different Linux distros as I really am quite a noob. I remember the first time I managed to get on line using Mandrake, using my network/external ADSL Modem, it was like, wow! I managed it! It really was quite a buzz. Even managed to configure e-mail as well, I was quite chuffed about that. So that's the level I'm at

Tell ya what though, I'll keep a diary, make notes and observations, log problems and (hopefully) solutions and if I see an article forming from those notes, I'll write one.

know what you mean flop, but i'd say it's worth the extra tenner! (actually £7.18)