On 5/13/05, Patrick Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey, > > Thanks for the help everyone, I am shopping around for > a newer Distro, this one was given to me by my > computer admin.(redhat 8.0)Can anyone suggest a good, > fairly user friendly distro( I would use it mostly for > web surfing, mp3 downloads and the like).I am thinking > mandrake,Suse or Fedora. I'd give Mandrivia 2005, Suse 9.3, Fedora core 3, Ubuntu 5.04, and Kubuntu 5.04 a try. I'd personaly recommend Ubuntu right now and Kubuntu You can download Mandrivia, fedora core and ubuntu and burn them to cd's
[Mandrivia 2005] http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/mandrakelinux.com/official/iso/i586/10.2/Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-Download-CD1.i586.iso http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/mandrakelinux.com/official/iso/i586/10.2/Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-Download-CD2.i586.iso http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/mandrakelinux.com/official/iso/i586/10.2/Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-Download-CD3.i586.iso [Fedora Core 3] http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc2.iso http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc3.iso http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc4.iso [Ubuntu 5.04] http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu-5.04-install-i386.iso [Kubuntu 5.04] http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hoary/kubuntu-5.04-install-i386.iso (If not I could burn some for you) Suse 9.3 you'ed need to get of some one from the list. > > Also, I was speaking with an aquaintance who mentioned > the possibility of hardware damage as a result of > Linux use, is this something I should worry about? How could software damage hardware? lol well there is some possible ways but don't worry they require effort (you'ed be able to do most of the same things on windows) You wouldn't get any damage just from use. > > Thanks again for the help, so far I've been running > Linux without too many problems, In fact my computer > seems to responding to the change rather favorably ^-^ Just wait till you get an up-to date distro! Hope that helps! Travis R. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
