ok i have just got into this and saw over my friends house that linux and it was easy and werks fast and i was wondering which one to get if i make a new pc and dont have money to get windows vista or something. i have read neumerous guides and understood the partition/another usb drive thing and wood want to know a easy linux many people preffered debian since really easy and good security and i also came across another 1 called linspire. www.linspire.com and tell me if this is good and like help me out on what i should do on my new pc. i am tired of windows! need something like it but easy and no security perblems.
i would go with debian. it is a very good distro. i havent ever had any problems with it here is where you can download debian http://ftp.ticklers.org/cdimage.debian.org-cdimage/daily-builds/ the link is for a netinstall iso. it will download packages while it installs so have your computer hooked into your router so it has acces to the internet and here is a guid for installing http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.html.en
I would go with Fedora Core 6 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Then once u install it follow http://www.fedorafaq.org Easy install and if u follow the fedora faq it will set it up and help u learn a few things
I'd recommend openSUSE because its very easy to use and is constantly updated where as other distros are updated once or twice a year
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