AZ_Pete wrote:
> I need recommendations on which Linux Distro to use.
 
Two strong recommendations: SuSE 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0.  Of the two, I
think that SuSE is both more user friendly *and* better designed and
more featureful.. but I'm clearly biased.

RedHat might be a valid choice if you subscribe to the "everybody else
is using it so it must be good" idea.  Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend
it.  SuSE and Mandrake are both better than RedHat in *nearly* every
respect, IMO.

Your friend should avoid Debian and Slackware like the plague.  Both
are *great* distros for experienced people, but hell for newbies.  I
encounter *way* too many people using Debian as their first distro and
swearing off Linux as a result.
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