Lots of great suggestions. One note of caution - make sure your hardware 
will support the distribution you want to use.

For example, I could not install RH, SuSe, or Mandrake on an older computer 
because (1) I had to install over the net because I could not use the 
floppy and CD at the same time and the CD was not bootable; and (2) I did 
not have enough memory for the net installation of these distros. However, 
Debian installed flawlessly over the net and runs my little webserver very 
well.

OpenBSd and FreeBSD worked well, too, but then that is a different 
story......

Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Tuxgroupie [SMTP:tuxgroupie@yahoo.com]
Sent:	Monday, December 23, 2002 7:00 PM
To:	Discussion
Subject:	Linux flavor help......

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Greetings All,

I'm still somewhat a newbie to the Linux world but I'm moving forward 
rapidly. I am currently establishing a Linux box at home for some serious 
training. I would very much like to hear some opinions from users as to 
what a good "flavor" for me to start out with would be. I hear pros and 
cons about them all. I have narrowed it down to Red Hat, SuSe or Mandrake. 
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks in advance.







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