Linux - xandros?

[Yoda]

Dug out an oldish Dell Optiplex PC. Have wiped it and resinstalled the Windows ME. I'm keen to have a dabble and learn about Linux by building a dual boot. The Xandros v4 product looks pretty good to me as a Linux know-nowt as it doesn't seem to need quite as much sleeves rolled-up as the raw versions.
I'd welcome any thoughts from the Linux gurus.

 

[snoopy]

Jump in with Slackware and run KDE. It's a dream.

 

[unhinged]

I'd recommend Ubuntu (not having used Slackware (or Ubuntu for that matter)). All our work's done on Linux (Debian) and a colleague of mine recently stuck Ubuntu on his laptop and said it just worked... I'm so used to building kernels and device drivers for sound, networking etc. and then configuring it all. The people who've built the Ubuntu distribution seem to have bridged that gap at least the vast majority of it and a lot of these things have become as "easy" as under Windows. You can test it too with a Live CD/DVD without having to repartition or commit to it in any way (the same's true of a lot of distributions so worth checking them out first).

The more the merrier.

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

search on here for Mepis

- and you can test run it from the cd drive as a live cd too - free D/L

better than ubuntu cos it finds more wireless stuff

search more and theres a list i posted for linux distro choice somewhere

 

[cookie]

got ubuntu running here, very nice it is too, but it's stopped booting after update TWICE now.

linux solid? my arse!

xandros gets a largely negative review here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/xandros_shows_progress/

 

[snoopy]

Linux is very modular in design and has lots of dependencies. Stay away if you don't like learning. It is very, very stable though and bloody fast once you recompile the kernel and get rid of all the crap you don't need.

 

[unhinged]

Ignore snoopy , my neighbour uses it and he's got his first PC at 59 and has no problems, check it out.

 

[snoopy]

wot ever, wot ever