Pick my Linux O/S for me...

  • Thread starter Thread starter KieranMurphy
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Which Linux version do you recommend?

  • Mandrake (stay with what I already have)

    Votes: 2 66.7%

  • SuSE

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Debian

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Red Hat

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lycoris

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Total voters
    3
KieranMurphy

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I used to have a dual boot WinXP / MandrakeLinux10 system, but I recently had to reinstall Windows XP and I can't boot to Mandrakelinux anymore. There may be some way of reinstalling Lilo on the boot sector so I can reboot to it, but I don't care. I only had Linux installed so I could muck around with it and see what it's like. It was also useful for practicing some command line Unix stuff I was learning at college.

I had about 40Gb currently dedicated to Linux and I'm thinking of trying a new version of Linux.

What do any Linux users here recommend?

edit: I'm looking for a distro which is easy to install, which will sit alongside Windows nicely and which doesn't have a steep learning curve and which is pretty newbie friendly.


KM.
 
KieranMurphy
I used to have a dual boot WinXP / MandrakeLinux10 system, but I recently had to reinstall Windows XP and I can't boot to Mandrakelinux anymore. There may be some way of reinstalling Lilo on the boot sector so I can reboot to it, but I don't care. I only had Linux installed so I could muck around with it and see what it's like. It was also useful for practicing some command line Unix stuff I was learning at college.

I had about 40Gb currently dedicated to Linux and I'm thinking of trying a new version of Linux.

What do any Linux users here recommend?

edit: I'm looking for a distro which is easy to install, which will sit alongside Windows nicely and which doesn't have a steep learning curve and which is pretty newbie friendly.


KM.
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I had no troubles whatsoever running dual-boot with XP Pro and Mandrake 10. Installation was a breeze. I would've used it more, but all the commands I had to learn turned me off to linux. Ask rjensen11. he helped me a lot with linux.
 
The only Linux distro I've ever used was Knoppix and that was on a Live CD. I've got a copy of Linspire 4.5 laying around that I've yet to install. I'm thinking of reformatting my drive anyway so when I do I'm probably going to do a dual boot. 👍
 
Event Horizon
I had no troubles whatsoever running dual-boot with XP Pro and Mandrake 10. Installation was a breeze. I would've used it more, but all the commands I had to learn turned me off to linux. Ask rjensen11. he helped me a lot with linux.
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I might go ahead and reinstall Mandrake 10. As you said, it was a breeze to install and it sat alongside an existing Windows XP installation without any problems.

I was just curious to see what experiences people had with other versions of Linux and if there was something better than Mandrake out there.


KM.
 

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