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Curious to know what everyone recommends for newbies as the best/easiest Linux flavor is to install. Or perhaps, if someone was looking to enter the world of Linux, where would he/she start?
I personaly like Mandrake, it's a gread beginer and advanced user distro. It installes easier than Windoze, handles partiioning and every thing. go to www.mandrake.com and go to download, you can download the ISO images, 3 of them, for free.
Mandrake 9.1 or Red Hat 9 are good choices for the new Linux user - easy to install, easy to use, lots of software and solid enough to stay and learn with.
If you have bandwidth, a burner, plenty of RAM (512mb or more), but don't have a spare HD I would give knoppix a try (http://www.knoppix.net and mirrors). It doesn't touch your HD, but gives you the full linux experience (KDE, OpenOffice, Konqueror, Mozilla, KOffice, Gimp etc) running off compressed CD files and ramdisk.
When you switch off you lose any configuration, but there are also tricks for saving config between boots.
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