Which Debian Distro should newbie get.
 

well know im goin to get debain because of some people who tell me its good for newbies like me that know nothing about linux so which distro should i download for debian.

debian stable without hesitation. It's the most stable of all the debian branches (of course... ;-) ) and obviously more stable than debian-based distro (unbutu...) that usually use packages from unstable. Basically once you have debian sarge (=stable) setup, you can forget about it and just concentrate on learning linux :-)
you can get the iso there: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
and the installation guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/
Good luck! and ask if you need help :-)
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I would recommend Sarge, which has recently been promoted to the new "stable" release. (The previous stable release was Woody)

Debian has three versions: stable (Sarge), testing (Etch), and unstable (Sid). You'd probably be safe with either Sarge or Etch; if you want the very latest and greatest go with Sid. http://www.debian.org/releases/ -- J.W.

My first Linux install was Corel Linux 1.0 (Debian) in 1999, but I haven't really used Linux until a couple years ago using Mandrake and Red Hat/Fedora. I knew nothing about Linux then (like I do now? ha!) Those distros may be of service too.

Xandros is now the old Corel Linux and they are up to version 3. When I tried it, it was very easy to install.



Just my dirty, corroded, bent, useless $.02

i acnt find where to download "SArge" on that link you gave me. It just talks about it.

sid?... he is a newbie... :-) and etch can be even worse now that sarge is out... for him, I would advise by order of preference: 1/ sarge(stable), 2/sid(unstable), 3/etch(testing)
and sarge is not out of date now and is very nice to use, has an installer, etc... it seems to me to be a good start... after he will upgrade to unstable if he feels like...
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clic on i386 if it's what you use: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
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yea its only 108mb for the iso image man thats small if thats the right one.

Oh and also do they have a live cd for Mac's.

yea and it's how it works... it only contains the base system... you will download *only* what you want/need with apt-get later...
Good luck!
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ok thanks

It's the right one, even if it is small. If you choose desktop environment, you will get at least
780 packages. Is that enough ? (1.7 Gb)...

no live cd.. if it's what you want you could look at knoppix...
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yea but choosing desktop environment will install kde and gnome... better to install it by end later doing apt-get install kde or apt-get install gnome... I would advise not to select anything from tasksel during the install...
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no i was jsut wondering if they had it for mac on debian its cool. So when this boots and installs all i have to do then is download apps. and thats it. If so where do i get apps at for debian and are they easy to install.