Author: Pete Galati
Date: 00:13:29 05/21/00
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On May 21, 2000 at 02:47:15, David Blackman wrote: >On May 20, 2000 at 22:28:20, Pete Galati wrote: > >>Does anyone have any recommendations for which Linux distribution to get for >>someone who only has experience with MS OSs? Also, are there any usenet Linux >>groups that are worth subscribing to? I subscribed to linux.redhat.install, but >>only today, and I have no idea yet if it's any good or if there's better. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Pete > >Redhat is ok. It's not too hard to install, even if you are new to Linux. On >recent experience i would say slightly easier than Windows 98. > >Try http://www.linux.org/users/ and see if there is a user group near you. Often >they can be very helpful. Get on their mailing list. Depending on the group, it >might be ok to take a computer to a meeting, get Linux installed with expert >help, and get some good general advice. If the group seems good and friendly, >use whatever distribution they use, to make the most of their expertise. Thanks, The Argonne National Lab. and Western Chicago Linux Users Group from their list might be ideal for me because Argonne is right outside of town here. I'll have to dig into this and see where they have meetings. I can probably do the install, but I've aquired some odd hardware that I need to check into, because I have a Promise bios card to make the bigger harddrive posible in this older computer. Pete
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