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As a newbie, where i should start from in linux?

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Join Date: Feb 2003

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Z28James

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Apr 5th, 2003

My journey through linux goes as follows:

mandrake 7.2 to 8.2
red hat 8
about every distro EVER, i tried debian woody, libranet, college linux, vector linux, slackware, JAMD, and about 20 more cd-rs worth of distros

THEN i found something that interested me, source mage which is based from the now dead sorcerer and this got me interested in from source distros. After that i decided to try gentoo because alot of people say portage was good so i did and i FINALLY found the distro i like

if you HAVE to start with red hat...try JAMD...its compiled for i686 and it all installs off of one cd plus you can install rh RPMS and not worry about breaking stuff.

but like the other dude said...stick with it for like a few weeks max, if you get used to having everything handed to you...lfs will seem so intimidating you wont ever want to touch it