Which Linux O/S?

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Ritchie888

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Hey everyone
First post here.
Im about to start building my own PC from scratch. I have always used windows and once i have build my PC i wish to dual boot it so i can run windows vista ultimate (which i already have (won it as an award a few days ago for uni ;))) and i wish to run another operating system; linux.
I want to have linux because i hear it has alot of good functions and its better for programming (having done programming at uni i have grown an interest in it)
my problem is i dont know which linux to look at.
i see there is Redhat, openSUSE, Xandros and im sure theres more.
What i want to know is, which one is best for me?
can anyone tell me the advantages of each one or recommend one?
Thanks in advanced
Ritchie
 
I personally like the redhat based distros, but there is a lot of hype about ubuntu and it seems geared towards those who have never used Linux before. Try it out, its free, and once you get one distro installed you can just download ISO files of each distro you want to try and run virtual machines of them.

Heck you can download VPC from MS (its free) and load it on your vista machine and then run virtual machines of linux and try them out to see which one you like best, then install it as a dual boot OS.
 
well iv just ordered the linux ubuntu CD's (from free :))
they should be to me in 4 to 6 weeks (apparently)
that should be enough time for me to build a computer for it :P
cheers for your help tlarkin
 
hope you have a nice time with linux.

ps : I ordered an ubuntu cd (v6.10) last year and i gave it to a friend
 
i plan too!
never used it before, im expecting good things.
do the CD's come with the partition software? like gparted?
i still find it strange that its completly free
even the delivery!
 
Well Canonical has a lot of money at it's disposal, several million dollars in fact. The installer has a partitioner on it and I think it's a flavour of GPartEd.
 
I have Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, it is great! and yes, it comes with all the apps you need. Just make sure you install Windows first.
 
I use Ubuntu and then I put KDE 3.5 and Xfce 4 on it to give me a bit of choice, then you can swap dependant on your mood.
 
Once you get your windows client running just download Virtual PC from Microsoft, its free. Then you can create virtual machines on your computer of every linux distro from here to the moon. Then decide which one you like because they all have their caveats and they all suck in some way or another, and of course they also have their ups and their pluses as well. No OS is perfect by any means.

Once you have decided you can then install it on your system for dual boot, obviously running it natively will run faster and take up less ram than virtually.

All Linux installers come with some sort of partitioning software and almost all of them run some sort of version of Gparted, or something very similar (disk druid on older distros).
 
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