What distro should I install now?

[JimH]

Alright guys how about some idea's on a distro to install on my spare partition?

Now that I have my high speed access, I have the speed to play. ;D It should support an ftp install, so I can give my connection another test ;D.

Any suggestions?

Jim H

[johnqpublic]

Try Slack 8 on for size and see if you can compile a working kernel in the dang thing!It is the only distro that has stumped me thus far.If you got 20 bucks lying around consider Libranet also.

[JimH]

Ok, I take a look at Slack 8 and see what kind of installs it supports. Anyone else with a suggestion?

[paradox]

Debian my dear boy, debian! You can even try Progeny which is a SWEEEEEEET ASSSS distro....try that see what you can do with it....I bet you'll fall in love with Progeny....

Aragorn

[JimH]

A vote for Progeny Debian! We will look at it and see. It looks like Slack 8 doesn't support an ftp install :'(, will have to grab the images.

[Mojo]

COREL LINUX (sorry bad joke)

[x0xCRIZx0x]

SuSE!

[LiNuts]

For a newbiesh type person i would recommend Libranet, its debian based and is very easy to install.

Once installed you will be in apt heaven
Cheers
LiNuts

[Swishy]

Alright guys how about some idea's on a distro to install on my spare partition?

Now that I have my high speed access, I have the speed to play. ;D It should support an ftp install, so I can give my connection another test ;D.

Any suggestions?

Jim H

With high speed net access and time to spare give gentoo a go cant beat a fully compiled from scratch system

and they are continually updating thier packages ,Im running stock vanilla kernel and reiser , and even withthe stock kernel nothing else out thier touches it for response

Cheers.
Swishy

[JimH]

I actually had Gentoo installed on another drive until I wiped it out to look at Slackware 8.1.

If you have high speed access and like to live on the bleeding edge, then Gentoo is pretty cool. 8)

Jim H