Whats Your Recommedation For Linux?

PierceUK

Hi just got my hands on a second harddrive and wanted to install linux without all the grief and trouble of partitions.

I will be mainly using my system for programming applications and web desing stuff, ive used red hat , blag and centOS at university at other peoples houses but i was wondering what you lot would recommend with your wisdom?

Many Thanks
Pierce

Quincy_3

http://www.ubuntu.com/ Try a live CD.

wiraone

For ease of installation and use .. I'll vote for Ubuntu. But I'm running Fedora Core 5 right now Had Ubuntu running on my old notebook (192MB RAM, 466Mhz Celeron processor) and I was happy with it .. it just that the notebook is too old now and the hardware was failing one after the other.

oldrimes

Yes - I'd recommend Ubuntu - also if you encounter any problems their forums are good.

Darksun

Ubuntu all the way, it's probably the best distro for people new to Linux

wolfman

Yep Ubuntu too.

The only downfalls I have with it (and other distro's) are the lack of WPA and wireless support. It is possible to setup but isn't out of the box ready. I currently only have a wireless atheros adapter and setting up a wireless network when I can't yet connect to the internet is a real pain.

Apart from that it's great. Google Automatix, it's a great script/app that'll install all the common things you'll need, codecs, media players etc...

ichiban1962

if you want a simple installation with not much tweaking by you
have a look at mandriva (used to be mandrake) well polished installation for newbies