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What are your goals? Will you be using this as a server, or a workstation? If you want to learn GNU/linux and the way it's glued together, LFS is really interesting. If you wish to learn server and system administration, debian and centos are good candidates. Or if you just wich to expand your horizon, try every distro (or perhaps a lot, since there is > 300 :P), and install slackware last. Always save the grand finale to the end ;P
'intermediate' nearly sounds like a dirty word in the context of OS fanaticism. Or maybe its' just that those who've graduated from 'newbieness' are busy cooking up their own distro or variant. By the time they've bored or tired of that, they are no longer intermediates... So let's hear it for mag1strateOS!
'intermediate' nearly sounds like a dirty word in the context of OS fanaticism. Or maybe its' just that those who've graduated from 'newbieness' are busy cooking up their own distro or variant. By the time they've bored or tired of that, they are no longer intermediates... So let's hear it for mag1strateOS!
Not that, I don't want to cook up a new distro.
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What are your goals? Will you be using this as a server, or a workstation? If you want to learn GNU/linux and the way it's glued together, LFS is really interesting. If you wish to learn server and system administration, debian and centos are good candidates. Or if you just wich to expand your horizon, try every distro (or perhaps a lot, since there is > 300 :P), and install slackware last. Always save the grand finale to the end ;P
I just wish to expand my horizons, try some new things out.
Give Funtoo a try ... Then go for a LFS install ... You certainly have the compiling power with your hardware spec ... Not to mention you'll learn more about the core and the linux tool chain.
Last edited by manwithaplan; 10-03-2009 at 09:27 AM.
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