recomend me a easy to install linux
 

i'm new to linux. please recomend me a easy to install linux.

Ubuntu, the easiest I've tried.

Mandriva 2008 spring powerpack
http://www.mandriva.com/en/product/m...inux-powerpack

Ubuntu is indeed VERY easy,

I've heard that Mint linux tries to go one step beyond in user friendliness, and is also a ubuntu/debian flavour, but I can't speak from personal experience there

Slackware.

but i found slackware very hard to install.

I do not recommend Slackware for new users. Start with anything in the top ten at distrowatch or the recent "member's choice" awards here at LQ.

can u recomend me a user friendly distro. thanx in advance.

I already did!!!!---and so did several other people.
I for one will not tell you exactly which one to try first---you may want to try several before you find the one that suits you.

A distro costs 1 CD (about €0.1 when bought by 100 where I live).
You can try 10 distros for €1
Download Mandriva, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mint. Burn the CD and boot from it. If you like what you see, install.
downloading is about 10 minutes (depends on your internet connection speed), burning is about 5 minutes (depends on the speed of your drive), and booting is about 2 minutes.
30 minutes is the time it takes to try a distro.

I agree that you need to try several distros to find the one that works for you and has an install routine you're happy with. You can do the first bit by trying the live CDs offered by most of the leading distros but to see the install routine you need to start playing with your partitioning layout. That is always the scary bit where you have the chance to completely trash your working system!

If you've got Windows installed you might want to look at Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (free) or VMWARE's Workstation http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/. (free for a 30 day trial). Both these packages would let you try the distro using the downloaded iso files without having to burn the CD (a huge cost saving!;):D) and more importantly without fiddling with your partition layout until you decide you've found the one for you!

At that point, you can bit the bullet and go for it! (after backing up all important data files:study:)

John

How come? Is it because the installation isn't as "graphical" as other distros?

User freindly is a misnomer. It really depends on what you expect from your system. If your looking for a desktop I'd recomend Ubuntu, if your looking for a server I'd recomend Slackware minus the GUI. I also found out that when you exclusivly use the CLI you learn how to use the system a lot more effectivly.

UBUNTU is the world champion in Linux Easy Install category!!!.... either desktop or server !

if you have any trouble with it let me know...

Slackware isn't difficult to install, it just requires a little bit more effort, a bit more thinking, than Ubuntu, etc.

Vector Linux is very easy to install, easy to configure, and is much easier to setup than Slackware.

I liked it so much, I finally switched from Slackware after using it for the past 12-15 years.

Slackware is great, no doubt about it, but it takes take quite a bit of tweaking, which I finally got tired of doing.

I've tried Ubuntu, and I really thought it sucked overall. Just something about it I did not care for. Same goes for pretty much other distro I've tried except for Slackware and Vector.

Ubuntu is very easy. You can install anything that interests you tho, theres enough documentation floating around. Usually it just requires reading a wiki and then searching the forum if you hit any roadblocks.

I have installed the following distributions: redhat/fedora, mandrake/mandriva, debian, ubuntu, knoppix, simplymepis.

The simplest installation I have ever seen is simplymepis. It is simpler than ubuntu. It boots as a live evaluation CD, then is installed by clicking an icon on the desktop. I realize that the ubuntu live CD also works this way, but after clicking the icon, simplymepis requires only about 4 mouse clicks to accept the default settings. May choices are removed, as it imposes more configuration options than debian or ubuntu. You do not choose packages to install, they are chosen for you. You can add/remove anything afterward using the synaptic package manager. It uses the debian repositories, so it has about 18,000+ packages you can install.

Oh, I should add that I found another live evaluation CD, pclinuxos, to be as easily installed as simplmepis. Pclinuxos is an rpm-based distribution, like mandriva. It also uses the synaptic frontend for package management. It does not have as many packages for download as simplymepis, but has many nevertheless.

Best tip would be to download a few 'live CDs' from distros that look cool. try them out on your pc (they dont install anything) and go from there.

Well as a absolute Newbie I have tried two Slackware and Ubuntu, I was able to install both without to many issues however I would have to say Ubuntu installed and configured easier than Slackware, I am sure both these and many others are great Dist's. Just my two cents.

Hi linux users, I am new to the forum but have been using linux in isolation for quite a while. At the moment I multiboot WinXP, WinVista, SimplyMepis6 and Fedora Core6. And I am writing this from CentOS 4.3 installed in vmware workstation (because it is a work machine as I'm at work as I write now, one can also use the virtual system if you have issues with network hardware and then use mswindows as your slave. it works pretty fast as we know linux can work light even with full graphics on).

For a person coming from mswindows I think the easiest distro would be SimplyMEPIS as it runs KDE, I do not mean that GNOME is not user friendlty but one needs to begin with something a little bit more familiar. The advice of starting by doing virtual installation is great indeed so as to be able to understand what needs to be done and how.