I use that when building servers. I'd never put Ubuntu on a server, it just aint ready. But for someone who is bridging into using Linux on the desktop, Ubuntu is far easier then debian.

My mac's all run debian, cos im hardcore, roffle!

i agree about ubuntu and servers. I hate sudo myself
Only reason i prefer debian over ubuntu is i think its faster as it runs well on 128mb ram machines

Ubuntu came from debian, so they're similar. I'd choose ubuntu because it's so easy to use, but if you want to learn more about linux, use suse or fedora

Thanks for all the great advice guys

if you like easy distros like fedora and suse give mandriva free or PcLinux OS a try.

I will give them a try but I am not sure about running something with the letters PC in it. lol

PCLinux OS is a fork of mandriva. Download bigdaddy (its a livecd with the otpion to install so you can try it out first)

... or you could try something more hardcore; I recommend Slackware. I've said this before, and I say it now: although it's not what a lot of people would call "easy", it teaches you far more about Linux in a few weeks than many other distros teach you in a year.

A lot of this is due to the fact that you often have to go about manually configuring things, though it's well documented, it gives you a chance to see the guts of Linux rather than some fancy GUI that's provided by distros like Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE, and the like. If you don't need to get work done immeditately and can spend some time tinkering around, try it.

i liked slackware 9 but dont use the newest one as it needs t5oo much ram for my pc

also ive kinda come to like apt-get so nondebian distros have kinda become a nono for me

Slackware is hardcore!!

I remember using slackware on my old olivetti pentium 100 machine with 16mb of ram. I was also in bash running BitchX (Yes its an irc program not a swear) connected to EFNet at 14.4Kbps