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catflea:
I'm looking to install linux on my desktop PC. I've already done this before, using Redhat 9.0 but found it very frustrating because I couldn't work out how to install (or get!) drivers. Are there any more recent distro's around that are easier to work with? or could anyone advise me how to get around the drivers problem with redhat?
Cheers
edit: I will be dual booting with XP
torg:
i suggest SuSE. They have a really good distro with a decent installer and good hardware detection. the last tim i installed it i had to configure only the network myself...
no i am using Gentoo but that one is not for newbies. its more recent (as all programms are compiled from the latest sources) but it's tricky to install...
infract:
I've used quite a few distributions in the past, and for ease of installation, i was pleasantly surprised by fedora core 4. didn't need to do any driver selection or anything, it found it all automatically.
a good review, from someone who had hated redhat's past releases.
est:
Mandrake and Ubuntu seem to be a couple of pretty good newb linux distros. Ubuntu even has a "live cd" that boots a working version of linux without having to install anything. some people use it just as their utility cd or whatever, but you could use it to boot up and check out if everything will detect ok, which is handy.
Addius:
My suggestion.. review if your hardware is supported by the used kernel as a module before you make the switch. If the support is either not there or in a "bleeding edge" status, forgett about it. It will only be troubles for you, no matter which dist you choose.
Distros that are easy to install since they autofind hardware is Fedora, SuSE (I believe myself to remember that it did?), Mandriva and Ubuntu. The two later are a real pain if your hardware isn't detected automaticly though.
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