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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Roland Tarver wrote: > So far I've heard good > things about Red Hat, SuSE , Caldera, Mandrake (and to a lesser extent > Debian). if it helps, here's my general opinion of the main distros: Red Hat and Mandrake: By far the most polished distros. If I was introducing someone to linux, I'd give them one of these. Mandrake looks good but redhat is more widespread. I use redhat quite a lot. Caldera: No idea. Never used it. SuSE: Large. 6 cds and/or 1 dvd last time I looked. Is pretty good too, but a little less friendly than Red Hat and Mandrake. Debian: I am becoming a real fan of debian recently, but I would definatley not give it to a new linux user. It's got some superb features and can be made very small more easily than the above. I find it a lot more similar to real Unixes than the others. This suits me fine however, as I work on Solaris by day. Slackware: not used it in such a long time it's not fair to comment on it. It's generally been of a more technical ilk. Zipslack is probabbly based on it. Alex. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.