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I'm not trying to be obnoxious. It's just that a lot of newbies download Red Hat, then complain when it can't do stuff that more modern versions can do. Newer versions of distros tend to have better and easier ways to install software, better hardware detection, and more graphical tools for installation and partitioning.
You can also try Blag, which is a one-CD distro based on Fedora.
Python will work fine on any Linux distro, since it is an interpreted language. Just download the latest release from the main Python site, and follow their instructions to install it. It's really relatively painless to get going.
Originally posted by Vgui Python will work fine on any Linux distro, since it is an interpreted language. Just download the latest release from the main Python site, and follow their instructions to install it. It's really relatively painless to get going.
On most Linux distros, there is no need to download and install python from the python website because its included by default.
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