Good Linux OS to START with?

[sHrEdDeR6]

Hi to all anti-M$,

Soryy for being lame but I just want to have any idea from all of you guys who can guide me whats a best Linux OS I can start with. I was very upset with Red Hat 7.2 CD i bought because its buggy, the CD itself. I just reported the bug to bugzilla.org and the problem was the CD. I did also post forum to blacksun.box.sk, linux.box.sk and neworder.box.sk; tried evrything about the situation but to no avail. Maybe I just ask if there's any LiNUx OS that can only be downloaded from dial-up 56K, maybe around 3MB or 5MB? Thanks and LONG LIVE LINUXes!!!

[choasmaster]

um, welcome

as for the linux cd, did you get two redhat 7.2 cd's, and what did it tell you when you went to install

[Master of Reality]

you definatley wont find any user friendly Linux that is under 100MB. Some of the very user friendly ones are Mandrake and Lycoris. But i find redhat just as easy as mandrake. Maybe try another CD?
It would take about 30 hours to download any of them on a 56K but it is worth it... I have even downloaded all three redhat CDs while on a 28.8 modem and 40 KM away from my ISP  

[choasmaster]

and for 56k, you can download 2 650meg and one 450 meg file in about a week and a half. i learned this from one of my friends/*then agian linux using maniacs that juggle burning torchs for fun worry me a bit    */ and yes, i think that the 1.44 meg linux, its called loaf, and it is not really a begginer linux/*more like a O SHIT I FUCKED UP THE SERVER NOW HOW AM I GONNA FIXIT kinda linux from what i have heard an seen*/

[Master of Reality]

Trinix, and FWfloppy are very tiny floppy disk Linucii that are mainly fr tiny firewall/routing. FW even comes with a tiny proxy.

[ July 17, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[TheQuirk]

http://www.phatlinux.com/downloads.php
it's called "PhatLINUX." It's not, err, bad, but I only used it once. It's 335mb to download, and that's a bit less then all the other distros. And it's very user friendly.

[Calum]

i have phatlinux and could not even get it to install (it wants to install on my fat32 partition - odd, and suspicious) so maybe it's not worth the download. I have not had any problems with mandrake 8.2 though, but then it's a biggie. I got mine from a cover CD of a magazine. Look out for those, as you will likely get a full distro for a few quid if you keep yer peepers open. I so far have got red hat 7.0, mandrake 8.2 and turbolinux 6.2 for a total of about US$20...

[choasmaster]

umm, try peanut linux, it comes in at under like 225 meg to download i think, it should kick ass though

[TheQuirk]

About two weeks ago Barns & Novels was selling a seven dollar magazine that had Mandrake CDs #1 and #2 and. The magazine had "linux" in the title