Redhat EL 4,suse 9.0 or mandrak
2007-03-06 01:10:05 · 6 answers · asked by kiran 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Any of the 'live' distributions will be good to play with... but my personal favourite is Ubuntu... I like the documentation, I like the reliability and ease of use of the software.
Red Hat is good too... but Fedora (Red Hat desktop) is less friendly to a newbie... you can do almost everything basic from a GUI in Ubuntu, there are a few things that will mean you have to go to a command prompt in Fedora.
Don't learn off a website. Learn from a combination of website, running it on a PC at home and books.
And remember the command 'man'. As in 'man ls' tells you what the ls (list files) command is and how to use it. As in 'man -k file' lists all of the man pages that contain the keywod 'file'. Run it from a command prompt (what you find on a terminal... 'Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal' on Ubuntu 6.06
2007-03-06 01:21:32 · answer #1 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no one best site as someone said use several sites and join some open source groups.Suse ,Ubuntu and Lin spire are some of the more user friendly Linux operating systems. Some are free some are not and so far there are no Linux based operating systems that are as easy as Windows.There great operating systems and there a lot more secure then Windows but they don't have the ease or software that is available to Windows users.Red Hat Fedora is for a more advanced user so as other posts have said start with an easier Linux operating system and work your way up to the harder Linux based operating systems.
2007-03-06 11:43:35 · answer #2 · answered by wayne548 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the kernel used is the same, and the Xwindows environment is, too, and all distros run BASH and all have the same command set, you could learn with any of them.
I like http://pclinuxos.com as it has the user guide, and the MAN, in it. Using it all the time, on this Dell Dimension 4100 (933mhz, with 256Mb RAM).
PCLinuxOS is Mandriva based, includes Synaptic plus 5500+ applications and programs.
2007-03-06 02:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 07:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an on-line learning course offered by red hat. They teach you Linux not just Red Hat and it's up to date.
2007-03-07 08:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by Robert M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the distribution for certain things, but most bits are the same. I'd suggest starting with Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
They have everything you need on their website - from the software itself, documentation right thrugh to support forums.
2007-03-06 01:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋