august wrote:
Dirk,
first, go here for some inspiration : http://funda.ment.org/THELIGHT/
some ppl prefer redhat to start with. I would recomend this as well. pretty easy to install. I even have my father using it now.
don't go with mandrake or suse. with redhat, just pop in the cd's and click thru the install process.
Suse 8.0 or more is easy to install as well. I have Suse 8.2 on a couple of machines here. The only trouble is, it uses gcc 3.3 to compile, and a lot of developers haven't made that switch yet, so a lot of source packages won't compile without a lot of screwing around.
Martin